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Cleveland State University NewsenImmigrants Play Vital Role in Ohio Communitieshttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/immigrants-play-vital-role-in-ohio-communities
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Enhanced resources will help immigrants &amp; state succeed</em></h6>
<p><img alt="Richie Piiparinen" height="229" width="350" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/richey-piiparinen-88ce7debf0cfedb9.png" />Cleveland State University, in partnership with a group of philanthropy organizations, has released a new report, <em><a href="http://levin.urban.csuohio.edu/cpd/reports_blogs.html#key_report">Our Pathway to a Brighter Future: Ohio’s New Americans</a>,</em> which highlights the crucial role immigrants play in Ohio’s economy. It also argues that further investments in services for immigrants would expand positive outcomes.</p>
<p>“Immigrants and their children represent the majority of projected labor-force growth in the United States over the next four decades,” said Richey Piiparinen, director of the Center for Population Dynamics in CSU’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and the report’s author. “By making investments in supportive services here in Ohio, particularly for our newest immigrants, we can expedite their ability to positively contribute to Ohio’s economy.”</p>
<p>Many of Ohio’s immigrants have achieved conventional markers of success, including rates of educational attainment 15.4 percentage points higher than native-born Ohioans (42.1 percent of Ohio’s immigrants hold a four-year degree or higher compared to 26.7 percent of native-born Ohioans.) However, immigrants have higher poverty rates than the native-born population (18.7 percent to 14.4 percent.) This reality is a function of the time it takes to acclimate to a new country and its customs, and can be lessened with improved access to three types of services:</p>
<ul><li>Adult English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) services and Spanish GED services throughout the state.</li>
<li>Legal services that are affordable and available regardless of legal status.</li>
<li>A full-range of healthcare services that are available regardless of legal status and that address physical, mental, and oral health.</li>
</ul><p>The report also found that Ohio’s immigrants have higher rates of family formation than native-born Ohio households, with 62.2 percent of immigrant households comprised of married couples with children compared to 56.4 percent of native-born. In addition, while Ohio’s population growth is almost stagnant, growing at only 0.15 percent since 1998, immigrants help to stabilize Ohio’s population and are a source of growth. Still, only 4.4 percent of Ohio’s population is composed of immigrants compared to 13.6 percent of the U.S. population. This is the largest divide between Ohio and the nation in modern history, and ranks Ohio in the bottom five nationally.</p>
<p>“Ohio’s immigrants drive cultural, economic, and social dynamism,” Piiparinen said. “By improving language, legal, and healthcare services, we can help immigrants contribute to Ohio’s economy and our communities more quickly. We must begin to imagine immigrant support services as a launch pad, not a safety net.”</p>
<p><strong>About the report</strong></p>
<p><em>Our Pathway to a Brighter Future: Ohio’s New Americans </em>is the result of a collaboration of funders coordinated through <a href="https://www.philanthropyohio.org/">Philanthropy Ohio</a>. It was funded through the generous support of <a href="https://gundfoundation.org/">The George Gund Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.healthpathohio.org/">The HealthPath Foundation of Ohio</a>, <a href="http://www.needmorfund.org/">Needmor Fund</a>, <a href="http://www.olaf.org">Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation</a>, <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/">Open Society Foundations</a> and <a href="http://www.scministryfdn.org/">SC Ministry Foundation</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:49:24 +0000600093320295 at http://www.csuohio.eduThe Changing Landscape of Economic Developmenthttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/changing-landscape-economic-development
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Forum features IEDC President Jeff Finkle</em></h6>
<p>The current environment for local, national and international economic development will be the topic of the next Levin College Forum hosted by Cleveland State University. The event will feature a keynote address from Jeff Finkle, president and CEO of the International Economic Development Council and a panel discussion by recognized experts in the field. The program will seek to assess the current workforce and inclusion challenges facing nations, development organizations and businesses as well as the opportunities for future growth and investment.</p>
<p>“There are many aspects of modern global politics, culture and business that make economic development at all levels more challenging than ever,” notes Roland Anglin, dean of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at CSU. “However, there are also many opportunities to think outside the box and develop innovations that can help countries, organizations and businesses rise above these issues to create real economic growth for the benefit of all.”</p>
<p><strong>The event will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 21 in the Roberta Steinbacher Atrium, in the Levin College on the CSU campus. It is free and open to the public.</strong></p>
<p>The panel discussion will feature Sasa Drezgic, associate professor of economics at the University of Rijeka, Croatia; Deborah Hoover, president &amp; CEO of the Burton D. Morgan Foundation; Shilpa Kedar, program director for economic and workforce development for the Cleveland Foundation and Matt Waldo, senior manager of research and analysis at JobsOhio. It will be moderated by Iryna Lendel, research associate professor and director of the Center for Economic Development at the Levin College.</p>
<p>Jeff Finkle is a recognized leader and international authority on economic development and has been president of the IEDC since 2001. He previously served as president of the Council for Urban Economic Development from 1986 to 2001 and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Reagan Administration.</p>
<p>The event is sponsored by the Unger Family Foundation through the Unger Program at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. For more information or to register, visit <a href="/urban/forum/levin-college-forum-032118-the-changing-landscape-of-the-economic-development-field">http://www.csuohio.edu/urban/forum/levin-college-forum-032118-the-changing-landscape-of-the-economic-development-field</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:40:11 +0000600093320293 at http://www.csuohio.eduIntroducing the March Issue of CSU Researchhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/introducing-march-issue-csu-research-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Cleveland State University’s Office of Research has released the latest edition of its online newsletter, <em>CSU Research</em>. Engineer Jason Halloran is working with the Cleveland Clinic to improve understanding of knee mechanics through a grant from the National Institutes of Health. In addition, music professor and composer Andrew Rindfleisch’s new work, <em>Three Lyric Songs</em> for solo clarinet and wind ensemble, will be performed by the Cleveland Winds during their concert on April 22.</p>
<p>The newsletter also highlights the scholarship of biologist Aaron Severson, mathematician Daniel Munther and chemical engineer Sasidhar Gumma.</p>
<p>Read the<a href="/research/news/email/newsletter/volume5-issue3.html"> newsletter</a>. Learn more about the <a href="/research/research">Office of Research</a> at CSU.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:05:18 +0000600093320286 at http://www.csuohio.eduThe Beauty and Influence of Terminal Towerhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/beauty-and-influence-terminal-tower
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Galleries at CSU pays tribute to Cleveland icon</em></h6>
<p><img alt="Terminal Tower" height="390" width="1000" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/TerminalTower_Slider.png" /><span>Terminal Tower, the 52-story, landmark skyscraper located on Public Square in downtown Cleveland, has dominated the city skyline since it opened in 1930 and is arguably the community’s most recognized icon. The power, beauty and importance of the tower to Cleveland’s identity, history and economy is the subject of a new exhibit hosted by the Galleries at Cleveland State University.</span></p>
<p><em>Cleveland’s Endearing Symbol: 52 Stories of the Terminal Tower</em>, includes photography, artwork, tchotchkes, video and other cultural objects which highlight the innovativeness and importance of the facility when it opened during the height of the Great Depression and chronicle its transformation from a simple building into a symbol of what it means to be a “Clevelander.” Features include photographs of the Terminal Tower by Margaret Bourke White (provided by the Cleveland Museum of Art) and Jennie Jones (from CSU Special Collections,) Buckeye the Peregrine Falcon (on loan from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History,) a wooden model of the Tower (provided by Shaker Historical Society) and a Public Television interview on the Tower’s enduring legacy with longtime CSU art professor Walter Leedy.</p>
<p>“Art helps show us where we have been and where we are going,” notes Bill Barrow, head of special collections at CSU’s Michael Schwartz Library and curator of the exhibit. “Through this exhibition we hope to highlight one of the most important historical icons of our city, look back on our past and look forward to our future.”</p>
<p>The show is designed by Donna Stewart, who is also with the Michael Schwartz Library, and it runs through April 21st. The Galleries at CSU is located at 1307 Euclid Avenue and is open, admission free, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. For more information about the show and additional exhibitions being staged at the Galleries, visit <a href="/class/art-gallery/art-gallery">https://www.csuohio.edu/class/art-gallery/art-gallery</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:18:52 +0000600093320278 at http://www.csuohio.eduAdvancing Public & Nonprofit Managementhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/advancing-public-nonprofit-management
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>CSU creates new engaged learning center</em></h6>
<p><img alt="Rob Ziol" height="490" width="350" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/img-432.jpg" />Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs has created a new center to coordinate education, research and experiential learning in the fields of nonprofit management and governmental leadership. <a href="/urban/cpnm/center-for-public-and-nonprofit-management">The Center for Public and Nonprofit Management</a> will combine multiple programs currently being conducted by the College into a central entity that can manage public and nonprofit management scholarship, education and internship initiatives, coordinate efforts with other research centers and colleges on campus and expand community partnership opportunities in Northeast Ohio.</p>
<p>“Levin College is nationally recognized for academic rigor and leadership development in public administration, city management and nonprofit leadership,” says Dean Roland Anglin. “This new center will allow us to strengthen our numerous initiatives in these areas and better connect them to students, academic programs and the needs of our community.”</p>
<p>The new center will incorporate Levin’s Leadership Academy, as well as a host of other professional development programs for public sector employees, including the Public Management Academy, which offers a management development certificate program for public managers. The Center will also include a robust internship program and a mentoring program that matches undergraduate and graduate students with executive level public sector leaders based on students’ career aspirations.</p>
<p>The center will be directed by Rob Ziol, a Levin College alum, who previously managed the College’s internship and mentoring programs. Ziol has been working closely with local government and nonprofit organizations to establish partnership agreements that create engaged learning opportunities for the College and expand educational and research resources for Northeast Ohio.</p>
<p>“Engaged learning and community connectivity are at the core of CSU’s mission and I am honored to play a larger role in developing and nurturing these important goals through this new center,” Ziol adds.</p>
<p>The Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs was established at Cleveland State University in 1977 and is dedicated to enhancing urban policy and public management through research, education and active engagement in improving and creating opportunities for the citizens of the Greater Cleveland region and the state of Ohio. The College is consistently ranked as one of the top public affairs colleges in the nation by <em>U.S. News and World Report </em>and its graduates serve in leadership positions in government agencies, nonprofit institutions and community service organizations locally, nationally and internationally.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Former Congressman discusses future of cyber policy</em></h6>
<p>Former Congressman Mike Rogers, who served as chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will open Cleveland State University’s third annual Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection Conference on Thursday, March 22.</p>
<p>In addition, the Conference, sponsored by CSU’s Cleveland Marshall College of Law, will cohost Attorney General Mike DeWine's CyberOhio Business Summit to be presented March 23. DeWine, along with Symantec Chief Cybersecurity Strategist Renault Ross, will serve as keynote speakers for the Summit. </p>
<p>As chair of the Intelligence Committee, Congressman Rogers authorized and oversaw a budget of $70 billion that provided funding to the nation’s 17 intelligence agencies. Rogers was a prominent leader on cybersecurity in the United States Congress, shepherding multiple cybersecurity bills through the House. Rogers is a highly sought-after national expert on cyber policy and currently serves as a CNN national security commentator.</p>
<p>Over 60 national and state regulators and cybersecurity experts in technology, business, law and government are scheduled to speak at the Conference. Talks and workshops will discuss cutting-edge topics ranging from recent regulatory developments to emerging technologies like the Internet of Things and blockchain to new models for enterprise security.</p>
<p>Both days of the Conference are open to the public and paid admission includes materials, continental breakfast, lunch and 7.5 hours continuing legal education (CLE) credit each day. Free admission is available to the CyberOhio Business Summit, without CLE credit. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.law.csuohio.edu/cybersecurityconference2018">www.law.csuohio.edu/cybersecurityconference2018</a>.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span>Dr. Nishani Frazier, author of </span><em>Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power Populism</em><span>, will deliver a lecture on her book from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 8, in Room MC 136 of Cleveland State University’s Main Classroom Building, 1899 East 22nd Street, Cleveland.</span></p>
<p>Dr. Frazier is an associate professor of history at Miami University, where her research interests include 1960s freedom movements, oral history, digital humanities and black economic development. She previously served as associate curator of African-American history at the Western Reserve Historical Society, assistant to the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Archives at the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and personal assistant to Dr. John Hope Franklin, before and during his tenure as chair of President Bill Clinton’s advisory board on “One America.”</p>
<p>In <em>Harambee City</em>, Dr. Frazier chronicles the rise and fall of black power within the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) by exploring the powerful influence of the Cleveland CORE chapter. She explores the ways that black Clevelanders began to espouse black power ideals, including black institution building, self-help and self-defense.</p>
<p>Presented by CSU’s Black Studies Program, Dr. Frazier’s appearance is part of the Ralph Pruitt Lecture, Arts and Media Series and Women’s History Month. </p></div></div></div>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:14:05 +0000259439220223 at http://www.csuohio.eduRally Around the Vikings as They Compete for the Horizon League Championshiphttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/rally-around-vikings-they-compete-for-horizon-league-championship
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img alt="Basketball" height="391" width="1000" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/Team_OAK1Jump.png" /></p>
<p>The Cleveland State University men's basketball team has advanced to the Horizon League Championship game - and here's your chance to support the Vikings at Little Caesars Arena Tuesday night!</p>
<p><strong>CSU is chartering five buses to take Viking hoops fans to Detroit to watch the eighth-seeded Vikings take on second-seeded Wright State in the championship game at 7 pm. The trip is all expenses paid, including game tickets. Buses will arrive at the Wolstein Center at 2 and leave at 3 pm. Available seats will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. CSU fans are encouraged to wear green and white.</strong></p>
<p>The Vikings advanced to their first championship game since 2009 after deafeating the Oakland Golden Grizzlies, 44-43, on Monday night. A win would be the first time a team seeded lower than sixth would win the title. Don't miss your chance to watch the action live in the Motor City. Go Vikes!</p></div></div></div>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 03:28:07 +0000600104720222 at http://www.csuohio.eduMore Paid Sick Leave Enhances Preventive Carehttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/more-paid-sick-leave-enhances-preventive-care
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Increases likelihood of getting flu shot, mammogram</em></h6>
<p>How much is enough? That is what researchers from Cleveland State University and Florida Atlantic University wanted to find out in the first study to measure the link between an employee’s number of paid sick leave days and the use of vital preventive health care services like getting a flu shot.</p>
<p>By measuring specific preventive health care services among American workers age 49 to 57, the researchers have figured out the optimal range of paid sick leave days that will make a difference in how these workers take care of themselves. They have found that it takes at least 10 or more paid sick leave days to significantly increase the odds that American workers get a flu shot, check their cholesterol, check their blood pressure, and get a fasting blood sugar test to check for diabetes. For female workers, they need at least six to nine paid sick leave days to see significantly increased odds of getting a mammogram.</p>
<p>“How Many Sick Days Are Enough” published in the <em>Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine</em>, provides compelling evidence that workers in the United States with paid sick leave are significantly more likely to engage in preventive health care behaviors than those without paid sick leave. Findings also reveal a disconnect between the number of days typically offered to workers in the U.S. and the number of days where the researchers observed changes in preventive health care use.</p>
<p>“It took 10 or more days — more days than are mandated in any of the local U.S. paid sick leave laws – for us to see statistically significant increases in the likelihood of reporting having received a flu vaccination, mammography, and screenings for blood sugar and blood pressure,” says LeaAnne DeRigne, lead author and associate professor of social work at FAU. “For policy makers who want to increase preventive health care services use in this age group, a longer and more generous paid sick leave plan of at least 10 days should be considered.”</p>
<p>“Preventive care is intended to catch medical conditions before they progress as well as preventing the spread of contagious diseases like influenza, which has reached epidemic proportions this year,” adds Patricia Stoddard-Dare, co-author of the study and associate professor of social work at CSU. “Despite having access, Americans only get half of the recommended requirements for preventive health care services. There are many factors that contribute to this dilemma, including adequate paid sick leave days.” </p>
<p>For the study, the researchers classified sick leave days into four categories: high level, 10 or more days; moderate level, six to nine days; low level, three to five days; and very low to no, zero to two days.</p>
<p>Overall, researchers found a 26 to 85 percent increase in preventive health care use among those with at least 10 or more paid sick leave days compared to those with zero to two paid sick leave days. For the female-focused preventive services, they showed a 55 percent increase in the use of preventive mammography. </p>
<p>Working adults with 10 or more paid sick leave days had a 33 percent increase in getting a flu shot, a 28 percent increase in screening their blood sugar, and a 69 percent increase in checking their blood pressure as compared to those with zero to two paid sick leave days. Employees with 10 or more days of paid sick leave also had a 34 percent increase in cholesterol screening.</p>
<p>The researchers used an analytic sample of 3,235 working adults age 49 to 57 in 2014 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Almost all of the sample (93.5 percent) reported having health care insurance or a health care plan. The median number of paid sick leave days was seven with nearly 27 percent of the sample reporting having no paid leave sick days. Only 10 percent of the sample had 20 or more paid sick leave days. Almost 26 percent fell into the zero to very low category while 43 percent fell into the high category of 10 or more paid sick leave days. </p>
<p>Unlike most industrialized countries, in the U.S, paid sick leave is inconsistently included as part of workplace benefits packages, and only 72 percent of working Americans have access to this benefit.</p>
<p>DeRigne and Stoddard-Dare caution that unless benefits are made equitable across employer size, Americans working for smaller companies will always have fewer paid sick leave days. On the clinical side, they suggest expanded evening and weekend office hours and bringing routine preventive care services to the workplace. They also urge service related industries like restaurants and day care providers to give their employees adequate time off when they are sick as these employees typically have very low rates of paid sick leave days.</p>
<p>“Lack of paid sick leave not only influences work health, it also influences public health,” says Stoddard-Dare. “Workers who lack paid sick leave are more likely to go to work when they are sick and spread contagious diseases, such as influenza, in the workplace. Paid sick leave is incredibly valuable because it provides both job protection and pay during times when employees must miss work for health related reasons.”</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>CSU announces new Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship</em></h6>
<p>The Cleveland State University Poetry Center and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are partnering to address the need for diversity and community engagement in the field of literary publishing. The two organizations have created a new writing and publishing fellowship that will allow creative writing post-graduates to develop a comprehensive understanding of the industry while also initiating a literary outreach project in Cleveland.</p>
<p>The Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing and Publishing, made possible by a $74,300 grant from the Cleveland Foundation, will fund the inaugural two-year fellowship at the CSU Poetry Center, a nationally recognized literary press that publishes innovative poetry, prose, and translations. Fellows will have the opportunity to edit contemporary literature, enhance community engagement opportunities for the Center, mentor MFA students, and assist with daily publishing operations.</p>
<p>“This Fellowship will provide an emerging writer time to work on their first or second book as well as mentorship in editorial, publishing and outreach work,” notes Caryl Pagel, Director of the CSU Poetry Center. “Along with Anisfield-Wolf, we hope to help address the longstanding lack of diversity in U.S. publishing, expand our literary service to the Cleveland community, and help raise our city’s profile as a center for innovative poetry and prose.”</p>
<p>“The U.S. publishing industry is structured so that its members are 89 percent white, according to a 2014 industry-wide survey,” said Karen R. Long, manager of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. “We are delighted to address this inequity with something new under the sun: an editing and writing fellowship housed in the resurgent Cleveland State University Poetry Center. We see this as a new on-ramp that will benefit the literary arts, Cleveland and the individual chosen.”</p>
<p>CSU is currently interviewing candidates for the inaugural fellow, who will begin in the fall of 2018. Additional professional development opportunities for the fellow will include participation in Cleveland Book Week and public readings of their work for the Cleveland literary community.</p>
<p>This fellowship is named for and supported by the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which honor literature that promotes equity and social justice and are administered through the Cleveland Foundation.</p>
<p>The Cleveland State University Poetry Center, established in 1962, is a national nonprofit independent press under the auspices of the Department of English. It has published nearly 200 collections of contemporary poetry and prose by established and emerging authors, while also serving as a center for engaged learning in creative writing, publishing and literary promotion for CSU students. To learn more, visit <a href="http://www.csupoetrycenter.com">www.csupoetrycenter.com</a>.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Partnering with CWRU and Mercyhurst</em></h6>
<p><img alt="Cyber Research Alliance" height="390" width="1000" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/Cyberslider.png" /></p>
<p>Three academic institutions – Cleveland State University, Case Western Reserve University and Mercyhurst University– each maintain nationally recognized programs in the science of cybersecurity. Today, they announced plans to share their individual expertise and collectively form the North Coast Cyber Research and Training Alliance to propel advances in the expanding field.</p>
<p>“We are pleased to contribute our strengths in legal technology and policy to the new alliance,” says Lee Fisher, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Dean and Joseph C. Hostetler-BakerHostetler Chair in Law. “The collaboration will prepare students for a cyber workforce in which complex problems will need to be solved at the intersection of disciplines and sectors.”</p>
<p>The agreement to jointly develop cybersecurity education, research and training programs in Western Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio will leverage the unique combination of strengths of the three schools:</p>
<ul><li>Cyber regulatory and policy analysis at CSU’s Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection</li>
<li>Cyber engineering and hardware solutions at CWRU’s Case School of Engineering</li>
<li>Cyber intelligence threat analysis and analytics at Mercyhurst’s Ridge College of Intelligence Studies &amp; Applied Sciences</li>
</ul><p>“The alliance opens the door to a variety of intriguing projects and new funding opportunities that will enable students to confront authentic problems across the full range of cyber disciplines,” notes Caleb Pifer, vice president for external relations and advancement at Mercyhurst. </p>
<p>"The multidisciplinary collaboration between Mercyhurst, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University provides the complementary expertise required to address complex cybersecurity concerns across a variety of application areas," adds Ken Loparo, the Nord Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western Reserve.</p>
<p>Launched in 2015, CSU’s Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection integrates technical, legal, and business perspectives to address privacy and cyber-risk management concerns. The Center conducts research in numerous aspects of cyber law and policy, houses multiple professional training programs, and offers concentrations in Cybersecurity and Privacy for Juris Doctor (JD) and Master of Legal Studies (MLS) and soon a Master of Science degree in Cybersecurity.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Global Space Law Center, housed in Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, will enhance its innovative curricular offerings with an online course to be offered in the summer of 2018. “<a href="https://www.law.csuohio.edu/academics/globalspacelaw/summeronline">Space Law: A Global View</a>,” will cover the fundamentals of space law and how the discipline has evolved alongside the expansion of private and governmental space activity. The course will be open to all law students both in the United States and internationally, to lawyers and other professionals with a connection or interest in the space industry, as well as to students or professionals in other disciplines.</p>
<p>The three-credit hour, asynchronous online course will be taught by the director of the Global Space Law Center, Professor Mark J. Sundahl, a leading international space lawyer. The course will also feature guest lectures and interviews with thought leaders from government and industry. Students in the course will have flexibility to complete the pre-recorded online learning modules according to their own schedules, which will allow for international students to participate in any time zone.</p>
<p>“Now is a particularly good time to study space law because we live in a period of tremendous growth in the industry,” explains Sundahl. “With ongoing rapid development of space laws and regulations, both domestically and internationally, there is a need for lawyers who understand these laws and can put them into action.”</p>
<p>Prof. Sundahl is enthusiastic about this opportunity to attract a diverse collection of international students to the course. “Asynchronous courses often increase student engagement and participation and we expect that from this course,” he adds. “By organizing this course in a way to allow for international participation, we can attract a collection of students that truly captures the global nature of space law.”</p>
<p>Students enrolling in the course will receive a broad education in space law that will cover, among other topics, the international treaties that govern the activities of nations in space and the domestic regulations that play a major role in shaping private space activity. The course will also explore the many types of space activity and will examine how the law has evolved to regulate new space industries, including space tourism, on-orbit satellite repair, and asteroid mining.</p>
<p>The course will begin on May 21 and run through a final exam taken either July 11 or July 12, according to student preference. C|M|LAW founded the Global Space Law Center in 2017, becoming the first law school in the United States to create a research center dedicated exclusively to the study of the law of outer space.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:02:56 +0000600093320206 at http://www.csuohio.eduSpring Concert Highlights Beauty of Dancehttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/spring-concert-highlights-beauty-dance
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Includes works by Antonio Brown and Doug Gillespie</em></h6>
<p><img alt="Spring Dance Concert" height="525" width="350" style="float: right; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/IMG_8673.jpg" />Cleveland State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance, a Resident Company of Playhouse Square, will present its annual Spring Dance Concert on <strong>Friday, March 23 and Saturday, March 24 at 7:30pm at the Allen Theatre, Playhouse Square, 1407 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115.</strong></p>
<p>All tickets are $5.00 and may be purchased by phone at 216.241.6000, online at <a href="http://www.playhousesquare.org">www.playhousesquare.org</a> or in person ahead of time at the State Theatre Ticket Office, located at 1519 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Tickets are also available at the Allen Theatre on the nights of the performances.</p>
<p>The concert features the CSU Dance Company, alumni, guest musicians and guest artists with choreography by Antonio Brown, formerly of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Doug Gillespie, assistant director of Kate Weare Company and CSU dance faculty Lisa DeCato, Lynn Deering, and Chris DiCello. This repertory concert consists of both newly created and restaged works that represent varied artistic styles and music. The concert also includes a special appearance by the Antonio Brown Company.</p>
<p>A Cleveland native, dancer Antonio Brown returns to Cleveland State as guest choreographer and performer. In December he created a new work for the CSU Dance Company. Receiving motivation from upbeat music and some familiar sound bites from social media, <strong><em>The Race</em></strong> explores a journey to cross the finish line of excellence. Running a race can be difficult at times and Antonio notes, “you might have to look to others to help you stay on track along the way.”</p>
<p>Antonio will also perform excerpts from his 2015 work, <strong><em>HERE</em></strong>, created for his NYC-based Antonio Brown Dance Company. The piece examines the views of two people living in different apartments in the energized environment of Harlem, New York. Both performers in the piece share similar experiences of self-reflection and exploration while dancing to a medley of songs by James Brown.</p>
<p>Doug Gillespie’s new work Emulous is a duo created through the exploration of imitation. The dance focuses on trapping the peculiarities of motion that happen when translating movement from one person to another or from an outside source. The dancers maneuver in close proximity to each other to multidisciplinary musician Albert Mathias’ “Kangaroo.”</p>
<p>Lynn Deering choreographed the quartet <strong><em>Sones y Danza para Cuatro</em></strong> in response to a summer residency with the Cuban Dance Company Malpaso. As part of the CSU Summer Dance Workshop, Malpaso dancers taught class and shared stories with CSU Dance Company members about their love for Cuba and their experiences growing up constantly surrounded by dance, either in the streets or in the concert hall. These shared experiences provided the inspiration for a dance that explores the contrasting images of isolation and support, with dance as the connecting force and common language. The Malpaso residency was made possible by The Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion project in partnership with DANCECleveland.</p>
<p>Choreographed by members of the Dance/Theater Collective, <strong><em>EarthSongs</em></strong> premiered in 1993. A collaboration among dance, theater, media art and music, the work has as its theme the issue of environmental awareness. Set to an exciting percussion score, <strong><em>EarthSongs</em></strong> uses text from sources as diverse as the songs of the Netsilik Eskimos and the writings of Rene Descartes to explore the differences between primal and contemporary attitudes about the environment and humankind's relationship to it. </p>
<p>Recognizing that the message of <strong><em>EarthSongs</em></strong> is even timelier now than it was 25 years ago, choreographers Lisa DeCato, Lynn Deering and Chris DiCello have restaged the work for the 9-member CSU Dance Company, with text and choreography updated for a more contemporary approach. <strong><em>EarthSongs</em></strong> was originally created with support from state and national funding sources including The Ohio Joint Program in the Arts and Humanities, The Ohio Arts Council, The Ashtabula Foundation and The Aveda Corporation. Since its premiere, <strong><em>EarthSongs</em></strong> has been performed in a variety of public venues in conjunction with talks, workshops and arts exhibitions on environmental topics to audiences of more than 150,000 northeast Ohioans.</p>
<p><strong>For more information about the Spring Dance Concert please contact Lynn Deering at <a href="mailto:l.deering@csuohio.edu">l.deering@csuohio.edu</a> or 216-687-4883.</strong></p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:26:35 +0000600093320204 at http://www.csuohio.eduPromoting Entrepreneurship & Legal Innovation http://www.csuohio.edu/news/promoting-entrepreneurship-legal-innovation
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>CSU hosts Startup Vikes and Global Legal Hackathon</em></h6>
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<p>The fifth annual Startup Vikes event was held in tandem with the inaugural Global Legal Hackathon Friday, February 23<sup>rd</sup> through Sunday, February 25th in the Student Center on the Cleveland State University campus. Startup Vikes awarded the top three companies created during the weekend prizes and cash infusion packages. In addition, the Global Legal Hackathon selected team Inco-herent to move forward to the international competition to be held in New York on March 11<sup>th</sup>.</p>
<p>The winning Startup Vikes businesses were: ReCap ($2,000), Garage Founder ($1,000) and InSpirit ($500).</p>
<p>In addition, three Startup Vikes teams were awarded with workspace at Cleveland Co-Labs: Bloom Clothing Company, Mindful CLE and You2Better.</p>
<p>“We are very proud of all of the businesses developed during Startup Vikes and of our Global Legal Hackathon teams,” said Colette Hart, senior director for the Centers of Outreach and Engagement. “The entire weekend provided pathways for entrepreneurship – which we hope that all of our teams will pursue after the event.”</p>
<p>“The Global Legal Hackathon participants worked in teams with law and computer science students and professionals from event sponsor Baker Hostetler to develop a technical solution to a law or legal-industry related problem,” added Brian Ray, Cleveland Marshall College of Law professor and director of the C|M||Law Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection. “Thanks to BakerHostetler and Startup Vikes for partnering to make Cleveland one of only 40 hackathon locations worldwide. I’m incredibly proud of all of the students who participated and excited to have three Cleveland-Marshall students on the team going to the international competition in New York.”</p>
<p>“Cleveland State University has been playing a larger role in Cleveland’s entrepreneurship ecosystem,” said Katie Van Dyke, Director of the Cleveland State University Small Business Development Center and facilitator of Startup Vikes. “It is exciting to see students from different disciplines with complementary skill sets form teams and help each other to advance their ideas and make connections that can help them continue to advance their business ideas.”</p>
<p>Among Startup Vikes 160-plus participants were students from Cleveland State University, students from four other universities and numerous community members. 28 business ideas were pitched and 14 teams formed on Friday night. The inaugural Global Legal Hackathon featured 50-plus participants included students and professionals from the legal community.</p>
<p>Over 50 mentors and presenters provided help, guidance and resources throughout the weekend ranging from strategy, branding, marketing, sales, financial, legal, design services and manufacturing to name a few.</p>
<p>“The level of participation from Cleveland State students, alumni, faculty and staff for both events was fantastic and helped make for a great weekend,” added Ray. “The entire weekend demonstrates Cleveland State University’s commitment to deeply practical learning opportunities that engage and enrich the business, technology and legal communities in Northeast Ohio.”</p>
<p>“For the winners and the teams formed, now the real work begins,” added Van Dyke. “Most of the businesses and individuals who participated will now begin refining their business models, either at the SBDC or at other sponsor accelerators including Cleveland Co-Labs, Start Mart, FlashStarts, JumpStart and LaunchHouse.”</p>
<p>Community sponsors of Startup Vikes included the main funder, Burton D. Morgan Foundation, Cleveland Co-Labs, Flashstarts, PickFu, Aladdin’s Eatery, Pepsi, Jumpstart, Inc., Cleveland Urban Winery, Ohio Small Business Development Centers and LaunchHouse.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 15:16:54 +0000600093320200 at http://www.csuohio.eduInvestigating Health Equityhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/investigating-health-equity
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>CSU helps lead national opinion study </em></h6>
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<p>Cleveland State University will play a major role in a national investigation of health equity. The University is helping to lead the AmeRicans’ Conceptions of Health Equity Study (<a href="https://arches.chip.uconn.edu/">ARCHES</a>), which will examine how Americans of diverse socioeconomic, professional, and racial/ethnic backgrounds think about fairness in the health domain. The project is made possible through a $699,960 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.</p>
<p>The CSU team is led by co-investigator Dr. Colleen Walsh, assistant professor of health sciences, and also includes Dr. Ronnie Dunn, associate professor of urban studies at Cleveland State and director of the newly established Diversity Institute. Dr. Sarah Willen, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut, is the principal investigator and Dr. Abigail Fisher Williamson, assistant professor of political science and public policy and law at Trinity College is also a co-investigator.</p>
<p>The grant will support a two-phase study that launched in October 2017 and will run through the fall of 2019. The researchers plan to investigate how Americans think about the question, “whose health deserves society’s attention, investment, or care?” In the first study phase, the research team will engage residents of Ohio’s Greater Cleveland area using interviews and ethnographic methods. A key partner in the study’s first phase is HIP-Cuyahoga (Health Improvement Partnership-Cuyahoga), a county-wide health equity initiative in Greater Cleveland of which Dr. Walsh has been an active member. In the second phase, the team will test findings from Cleveland through a national survey.</p>
<p>“Having been a member of the Eliminating Structural Racism sub-committee of HIP-Cuyahoga for several years, I have been interested in finding ways that research can help tackle some of the key questions facing health care policy,” Walsh says. “For example, how do we have open and honest discussions about race, class and gender that allow for policy changes to improve health?”</p>
<p>The results of the study will help advance local health equity efforts like HIP-Cuyahoga, which seeks to improve health for all people who live, work and play in the county. Walsh also hopes to involve students in the project and use the experience to improve understanding of how policy decisions around health are made. </p>
<p>“In doing this applied research that engages the local community broadly, we hope that what we find will aid decision-makers and residents in their work to develop policy and practice around equity and inclusion,” Walsh adds. “We also want to prepare the next generation of health practitioners to better engage in the policy making process.”</p>
<p>The study team will also draw on the expertise of local residents and stakeholders as well as researchers at Brown University, Case Western Reserve University, Syracuse University, the University of South Florida, and First Year Cleveland.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:08:24 +0000600093320195 at http://www.csuohio.eduP. Kelly Tompkins Joins C|M|LAWhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/p-kelly-tompkins-joins-cmlaw
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Business executive named leader-in-residence</em></h6>
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<p>Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law has appointed P. Kelly Tompkins, recently retired executive vice president and chief operating officer of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., as a Leader-in-Residence.</p>
<p>"I am humbled and most grateful to have the opportunity to serve the law school that has been singularly impactful on my professional career,” said Tompkins, a 1981 graduate of C|M|LAW. “I look forward to continuing my support of Cleveland-Marshall by working closely with Dean Lee Fisher, the faculty, alumni and most importantly our students to help them mature professionally and become the citizen lawyers our country so vitally needs."</p>
<p>As part of his duties, Tompkins will maintain an on-campus office presence for discussions with students, faculty and staff, guest lecture, assist with advancement and participate in leadership meetings.</p>
<p>“Kelly Tompkins has forged a remarkable career since graduating from our law school,” noted Fisher. “His many leadership positions in the corporate sector and the community make him a great role model for our students that are interested in careers at the intersection of law, business and community leadership.”</p>
<p>Tompkins held various executive vice president positions with Cleveland-Cliffs, one of the largest mineral resources firms in the U.S., for the past seven years, overseeing operations, commercial, finance, business development, legal, strategy, environment, government affairs and communications. Previously, he worked as chief legal officer and later chief financial officer at RPM International Inc., having started his distinguished career in 1981 as an in-house lawyer with Reliance Electric Company, an affiliate of Exxon Corporation.</p>
<p>Tompkins has previously served as a trustee on the board of directors of the CSU Foundation and is currently co-chair of the United Way’s Humanitarian Society and vice chair of C|M|LAW’s Board of Visitors. Tompkins also serves as a trustee of Mercyhurst University and as a strategic partner with Cleveland-Marshall in its Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection. He is a past recipient of CSU’s George B. Davis Award for Distinguished Service to the University, delivered the law school’s commencement address in 2005 and was elected as a member of C|M|LAW’s inaugural Hall of Fame class in 2017.</p>
<p>The school’s Leader-in-Residence program, founded in 2017, is designed to closely connect students, staff and faculty with volunteer community leaders from whom they can learn and benefit. Tompkins is the fourth leader-in-residence appointed by the school, joining Steve Percy ’76, legal educator-in-residence Howard Katz, and scholar-in-residence Eric Tucker.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:37:27 +0000600093320194 at http://www.csuohio.eduReducing Injury to Health Care Workers http://www.csuohio.edu/news/reducing-injury-health-care-workers
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Research is one of 2 CSU projects to receive $100K grants</em></h6>
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<p>The total cost of workplace lower back injuries in the US alone exceeds $100 billion per year. In addition, rates of musculoskeletal injuries for state tested nursing aids were more than seven times as high as the average for all workers. To reduce the incidence of injury and decrease workers compensation costs, Dr. Wenbing Zhao, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Cleveland State University, is developing a computer vision based motion tracking technology to improve compliance to best practices in patient handling.</p>
<p>The project is one of two research efforts being conducted at CSU which have each been awarded $100,000 technology acceleration grants by the TeCK Fund, a joint technology commercialization and startup fund managed by CSU and Kent State University and funded in part by the state of Ohio.</p>
<p>The system can detect risky postures made by an STNA during patient handling and provides real time feedback while protecting the privacy of patients, which is important to conform to HIPPA regulations. In addition, the data collected can be used by managers to improve overall safety and training in health care systems across the state. </p>
<p>“We have been working with multiple nursing homes and the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation to conduct initial tests of the technology, and this grant will greatly enhance our ability to create next generation prototypes and eventually commercialize the system,” says Dr. Zhao.</p>
<p>“The TeCK Fund identifies promising research that can have significant real world benefits and works with researchers to move the technology from the laboratory to the marketplace,” adds Jerzy Sawicki, vice president for research at CSU. “Dr. Zhao’s work is a perfect example of the types of ‘game changing’ innovations we hope to advance through this initiative.”</p>
<p>The second TeCK Fund award went to Dr. <a href="/news/csu-engineer-leading-innovation-in-toxicity-testing">Moo-Yeal Lee</a>, an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at CSU, who has developed robotic, high-precision, cell printing technology which allows for the generation of testable human tissues in a laboratory environment. The innovation could increase the accuracy of toxicity testing and drastically reduce the associated costs.</p>
<p><a href="/technology-transfer/teck-fund">The TeCk Fund</a>, developed with funding from the Ohio Third Frontier Commission, was created in 2017. It accepts applications from faculty teams investigating opportunities to commercialize research and also assists in connecting university researchers with potential business partners. Funding of up to $100,000 is available for individual technology validation projects.</p>
<p>“CSU and Kent State have unique research portfolios that provide significant opportunities for commercialization in a host of fields, from drug development to assistive devices to liquid crystals,” says Jack Kraszewski, director of the Technology Transfer Office at CSU. “Through the TeCK Fund we are able to accelerate the process for licensing technology while spurring the development of additional business opportunities with numerous companies across the state.”</p>
<p align="center">###</p></div></div></div>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:18:10 +0000600093320184 at http://www.csuohio.eduSandra English Honored for Coop Excellence http://www.csuohio.edu/news/sandra-english-honored-for-coop-excellence
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Sandra English, senior manager for the Center for Engineering Experiential Learning at Cleveland State University, has been awarded the 2018 Alvah K. Borman Award for excellence in cooperative engineering education. The award is given annually by the Cooperative Experiential Education Division of the American Society of Engineering Education and honors individuals who have made a significant contribution to advancing engineering education and experiential learning.</p>
<p>“Sandra English is a national leader in cooperative education, and has played a central role in developing a highly professional, innovative and successful engaged learning environment for engineering students at CSU,” says Anette Karlsson, dean of the Washkewicz College of Engineering at Cleveland State.</p>
<p>“I am extraordinarily honored to receive this award and would like to thank all of my colleagues in the Washkewicz College of Engineering who have helped make cooperative education a central component of our educational mission,” English adds.</p>
<p>The engineering cooperative education program was begun at Fenn College prior to the creation of CSU in 1964. Today the program places over 100 students annually with numerous industry partners, such as General Electric, Parker Hannifin and Swagelok.</p>
<p>English became manager of the engineering cooperative education program at CSU in 2012. Prior to that she was assistant director of law admission and multicultural recruitment at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. English has also served in numerous leadership capacities with ASEE and is currently chair of its Cooperative &amp; Experiential Education Division. English holds a BA from Ursuline College and a J.D. /M.P.A. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law/Maxine Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:52:32 +0000600093320182 at http://www.csuohio.eduGiving Day Sets Record http://www.csuohio.edu/news/giving-day-sets-record
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Cleveland State University’s fifth-annual Giving Day raised more than $269,000 from over 2,500 donors — easily exceeding its goal of $150,000 and 1,500 donors.</p>
<p>The event to support student success across academic colleges, athletics and other units was held over a 24-hour period from 12 a.m. Tuesday, February 20, to 12 a.m. Wednesday, February 21.</p>
<p>“We are incredibly grateful for the generous outpouring of support from our alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends,” said Berinthia R. LeVine, vice president of university advancement and executive director of the CSU Foundation. “Thanks to them, we surpassed our goal by early afternoon and continued to set and surpass new goals throughout the day.</p>
<p>“Donors enthusiastically embraced the opportunity to support their favorite college or program and our students are the beneficiaries,” she added.</p>
<p>Conducted largely online, the 24-hour fundraising campaign used a crowdfunding platform combined with email marketing and a robust social media presence. Prizes and incentives rewarded “Social Ambassadors” who used tools on the CSU Giving Day website to promote the initiative online and raise funds through their own social networks. Donors who pledged “challenge gifts” helped maximize the impact of group efforts -- particularly among the University’s athletic teams, where men’s lacrosse and the swimming and diving teams each raised over $40,000 for scholarships and student-athlete support.</p>
<p>“Technology, social media, the creativity and energy of our ambassadors, and the willingness of donors to respond combined to shatter records and make this the biggest and best Giving Day ever at CSU,” said Julia Ross, director of annual giving and campaign operations.</p>
<p>In the five-year history of <a href="http://www.supportcsu.org/">Giving Day</a>, support for the University has increased by at least 50% each year, with this year’s performance more than doubling last year’s effort.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:25:31 +0000600093320181 at http://www.csuohio.eduCelebrating the Power of CSU Womenhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/celebrating-power-csu-women
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Annual awards program honors contributions to campus</em></h6>
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<p>Cleveland State University’s Strong Woman, Strong Leader Awards celebrate the contributions of female students and alumni to campus and the broader community and serve as an annual opportunity to honor and support Women’s History Month. <strong>The 2018 awards ceremony will be held Thursday, March 1 from 11:00am - 12:30pm in the CSU Glasscock Ballroom, located on the third floor of the Student Center.</strong></p>
<p>The 2018 honorees are:</p>
<ul><li>Zahraa Alribeawi is currently completing her sophomore year as an international relations major. After graduation, she plans to attend law school and pursue her interests in diplomacy and foreign affairs.</li>
<li>Arrione Clark is currently in her final year of CSU’s school psychology graduate program. She chose school psychology as a career because she believes the best leaders of today are those who invest in the leaders of tomorrow.</li>
<li>Cammie Collins graduated with a degree in journalism and promotional communication in 2017 and plans to attend law school and work as a civil rights attorney.</li>
<li>Treveya Franklin-Boone will be graduating with a degree in social work in the spring of 2018. Currently, she works at North Point Transitional Housing and previously served as a counselor at The Hitchcock Center for Women.</li>
<li>Tanesha Hunter earned her master’s in public administration from CSU’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. She works for the Cleveland Department of Aging and is dedicated to ensuring an enhanced quality of life for seniors and adults with disabilities.</li>
<li>Erica Wiley Whiteman is a fourth-year doctoral student in the counseling psychology Ph.D. program at CSU. During her tenure on campus she has co-chaired the Student Affiliates of Seventeen and helped reinitiate the Counseling Psychology Doctoral Student Organization.</li>
</ul><p>The event is free and open to the public. For more information or to register, visit <a href="/engagement/csu-strong-woman-strong-leader-2018">http://www.csuohio.edu/engagement/csu-strong-woman-strong-leader-2018</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:15:34 +0000600093320178 at http://www.csuohio.eduFaculty Spotlight: Paula Chanhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/faculty-spotlight-paula-chan
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img alt="Paula Chan" height="484" width="350" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/Chan%20Headshot.jpg" /><a href="http://facultyprofile.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=p_e_chan06">Paula Chan</a> joined Cleveland State University in the fall 2015 as an assistant professor of special education in the <a href="/cehs/te/te">Department of Teacher Education</a>.</p>
<p>She is a doctoral-level Board Certified Behavior Analyst, and her research focuses on improving post-school outcomes for adolescents with disabilities.</p>
<p>For many students with disabilities, moving into adult roles can be challenging because they lose many of the support systems that were available in their school environments.</p>
<p>As part of her research, Chan assesses methods for teaching students with behavior disorders to become active participants in developing their behavior assessments and behavior intervention plans. This approach helps improve the effectiveness of these assessments, and helps students develop skills that promote successful transition to adulthood.</p>
<p>She also explores how feedback can be used to improve skill development. As students develop skills to transition to adult roles, feedback is critical to provide them with information about how they are progressing toward their goals. Chan's research helps determine ways to enhance the effectiveness of feedback and to maximize student growth.</p>
<p>Prior to coming to CSU, Chan completed doctoral studies in special education and applied behavior analysis at The Ohio State University. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Cleveland State and a master’s in applied behavioral analysis from the University of South Florida.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:09:53 +0000600093320176 at http://www.csuohio.eduCSU Named to Transfer Honor Rollhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/csu-named-transfer-honor-roll
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Selected by Phi Theta Kappa for 3<sup>rd</sup> Straight Year</em></h6>
<p>Cleveland State University has been recognized for a third year in a row by Phi Theta Kappa as a member of its Excellence in Community College Transfer Honor Roll. The award identifies the top four-year colleges and universities for creating dynamic pathways to support community college transfer.</p>
<p>“CSU is extremely honored to receive this national recognition for our efforts to support transfer students,” says Lee Furbeck, CSU’s director of undergraduate admissions and student transition. “Our partnerships with multiple community colleges in the region allow for a smooth transition to Cleveland State, ensuring students have the tools necessary to succeed academically.”</p>
<p>“In order to ensure the continued success of community college graduates, the Transfer Honor Roll Program identifies colleges and universities that understand the unique needs of transfer students and applauds the dynamic pathways these colleges have created to continue fostering student success when these students move on to four-year colleges,” adds Phi Theta Kappa CEO Lynn Tincher-Ladner.</p>
<p>The Transfer Honor Roll seeks to recognize institutions that are innovatively responding to the needs of community college transfers and promoting and sharing best practices for transfer success. It also highlights the rich perspective and diversity community college students bring to four-year universities, and ultimately to the nation’s workforce.</p>
<p>Phi Theta Kappa is the oldest, largest and most prestigious honor society recognizing students pursuing two-year degrees. It is made up of more than 3 million members and nearly 1,300 chapters in nine nations.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6>$2 million NIH grant enhances biological research</h6>
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<p>A team lead by <a href="/grhd/faculty/valentin-boerner">Dr. Valentin Börner</a>, associate professor of Biological Sciences at Cleveland State University, has received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to increase our understanding of how the function of a protein complex called proteasome impacts chromosome segregation in meiosis. Meiosis is a key process that affects sexual reproduction, fertility and the development of birth defects. The research could also have a significant impact on the treatment of numerous types of cancers.</p>
<p>The proteasome is a highly sophisticated protease complex of the eukaryotic cell that is designed to carry out selective degradation of protein substrates. The protease "gobbles up" proteins after they have performed their cellular function. The proteasome is essential for many cellular processes, however, until recently, little was known about how the proteasome impacts meiosis, the central cell division that generates egg and sperm in sexually reproducing organisms, including humans.</p>
<p>The project at Cleveland State University, which also includes researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, builds on the Börner lab's recent discovery of a direct connection between proteasome activity and the meiosis process. Those findings were published in the prestigious journal <a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/04/science.aaf4778" target="_blank">Science</a> in January, 2017. The new project will work to identify the specific role the proteasome plays in meiosis, including identifying the specific proteins the protease removes as chromosome segregation and cell division occurs. The planned studies will also seek to assess the impact of proper proteasome function on reproduction and how defects in this process could be a cause for infertility, miscarriage and certain genetic diseases.</p>
<p>"We now know that the proteasome attaches itself to chromosomes during meiosis and disposes of used proteins as part of the process," adds Dr. Börner, who is a member of CSU's <a href="/grhd/grhd">Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease</a>. "The next step is identifying what specific material is being removed, how this allows meiosis to progress, and what impact the process has on overall sexual reproduction."</p>
<p>Dr. Börner also points out that proteasome inhibitors are now being used in cancer therapy, most notably multiple myeloma. A better understanding of proteasome functions in chromosome stability will allow for more focused targeting of these drugs to better inhibit cancer growth.</p>
<p>"We are now undertaking a new path in genetic science that could lead to a better understanding of reproduction and improved treatments of reproductive diseases and numerous types of cancer," Dr. Börner adds.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:32:24 +0000600104720167 at http://www.csuohio.eduIntroducing the February Issue of CSU Researchhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/introducing-february-issue-csu-research-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Cleveland State University’s Office of Research has released the latest edition of its online newsletter, <em>CSU Research</em>. It includes a feature on biologist Valentin Börner’s new $2 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health. The project seeks to uncover new information on the function of the protein complex proteasome and its impact on meiosis. The newsletter also highlights the scholarship of historian Stephanie Hinnershitz, education professor Graham Stead and political scientist Neda Zawahri.</p>
<p>Read the <a href="/research/news/email/newsletter/volume5-issue2.html">newsletter</a>. Learn more about the <a href="/research/research">Office of Research</a> at CSU.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>CSU hosts American Legacy Magazine Exhibit </em></h6>
<p>As part of its celebration of Black History Month, Cleveland State University will host a traveling exhibit highlighting the contributions of African Americans to American society and culture. <em>American Legacy </em>magazine’s Know Your History project, now in its tenth year, is a “museum on wheels” which travels to cities around the country during the month of February telling the stories of black men and women whose innovations and accomplishments compose our history and continue to empower Americans of all ages, colors and creeds.</p>
<p><strong>The exhibit will visit Cleveland February 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will be located on the CSU campus at the corner of East 22<sup>nd</sup> Street and Payne Avenue. The event, which is free and open to the public, is cosponsored by CSU’s Black Studies Program, the City of Cleveland, and the Urban League of Greater Cleveland.</strong></p>
<p>“The Know Your History project provides a tremendous opportunity for communities across the country to learn more about the amazing contributions African Americans have made to American history,” says Thomas Bynum, director of the Black Studies Program at CSU. “We are honored to partner with the Urban League and the City of Cleveland to bring this important resource to Northeast Ohio.”</p>
<p><em>American Legacy</em> was founded in 1995 and is a quarterly magazine that covers African-American history and culture. It created the Know Your History project in 2008 to enhance understanding of and community conversation surrounding black history and culture and its impact on American society.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Symposium advances growth in communities of color </em></h6>
<p>Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs will host a community symposium focused on promoting wealth building and growth in communities of color in Ohio. The event will bring together notable national and local scholars and practitioners in the field of asset building and community economic development for the start of an ongoing dialogue on how to promote true growth in all communities.</p>
<p><strong>“Wealth Building in Northeast Ohio's Communities of Color” will be held Thursday, February 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Levin College of Urban Affairs on the CSU campus.</strong></p>
<p>The symposium will feature presentations by noted community development experts, including Roland Anglin, dean of the Levin College of Urban Affairs, Jeremie Greer, vice president of policy and research at Prosperity Now, Darrick Hamilton, professor of economics and urban policy at The New School and Tom Shapiro, director of the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University. The event will also include talks by representatives from numerous local community organizations, including the Greater Cleveland Partnership, the Fund for Our Economic Future and the Hispanic Business Center.</p>
<p>The symposium is co-sponsored by Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, Growth Opportunity Partners, the Hispanic Business Center, PolicyBridge, The Ohio State University Extension and the Urban League of Greater Cleveland.</p>
<p>For more information on the symposium and additional public policy events hosted by the Levin College, visit <a href="/urban/events/wealth-building-in-northeast-ohios-communities-of-color">http://www.csuohio.edu/urban/events/wealth-building-in-northeast-ohios-communities-of-color</a>.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Will transition to 100% compostable tableware</em></h6>
<p>As part of Cleveland State University’s ongoing efforts to promote sustainability and reduce waste on campus, CSU Dining Services has announced that they will be transitioning to 100 percent plant-based compostable tableware. Moving forward, compostable cups, plates, and utensils will be used in all CSU dining facilities and for catered campus events. This effort augments the University’s composting initiative for kitchen food waste which yielded over 38,000 pounds in 2017 alone.</p>
<p>“Compostable products are becoming a popular choice for universities with ambitious waste reduction targets. In addition, students, faculty and staff have expressed a desire to move away from disposable plastic tableware and we’ve been able to make this transition with no additional product costs,” says Jennifer McMillin, director of the Office of Sustainability at CSU. “Our new compostable tableware is made from corn and sugarcane and can be turned into composted soil in less than two weeks.”</p>
<p>Compost collection bins will be set up in the CSU Student Center for catered events, and soil produced from the project will be used by CSU Facilities for campus landscaping. The <a href="/sustainability/composting">initiative</a> is a partnership between CSU’s Office of Sustainability, Dining Services, Student Affairs, Facilities and Conference Services.</p>
<p>“CSU Dining is committed to identifying areas where we can reduce environmental impact while continuing to provide high quality service for the campus community,” says Kathleen Mooney, assistant director for campus support services at CSU. “This initiative is truly a win-win.”</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Initiative is in partnership with tech leader TCDI</em></h6>
<p>Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law has partnered with Technology Concepts &amp; Design, Inc. (TCDI), a pioneer in legal technology, to create a new legal technology lab and training program. The initiative offers C|M|LAW students, graduates and local contract attorneys the opportunity to gain valuable real-life experience while providing cost-effective legal services to TCDI’s corporate and law firm clients.</p>
<p>“This innovative partnership with TCDI will provide students opportunities to learn cutting-edge legal technologies while working with TCDI’s sophisticated clients," said C|M|LAW Dean Lee Fisher. "The Tech Lab is one of several exciting programs in our new C|M|LAW Tech Initiative that emphasize our commitment to equipping students and legal professionals with the tools and knowledge required for modern legal practice."</p>
<p>The Tech Lab is part of the new C|M|LAW Tech Initiative that includes:</p>
<ul><li>The Cybersecurity and Privacy concentration, and planned legal technology certificate for JD and MLS students</li>
<li>A new eDiscovery online professional certificate program for litigation support professionals</li>
<li>A legal tech CLE series featuring programs on cybersecurity, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT),</li>
</ul><p>“Cleveland-Marshall College of Law is a visionary in legal education and we are thrilled to be partnering with them to build this facility and develop the training program," said Bill Johnson, CEO of TCDI. "This unique on-campus program will help train the next generation of legal professionals and provide our clients with an alternative to costly services including document review, exhibits coding and legal research.”</p>
<p>The program will be housed in a dedicated and secure on-campus center within the law school library. Students and local contract attorneys will use TCDI’s review platform to deliver quality, time-saving legal services. Using a blended approach of technology and process, attorney project managers will oversee all work performed in the center and work under the direct supervision and guidance of outside or in-house counsel.</p>
<p>Mark Smolik, Chief Legal &amp; Compliance Officer on the DHL legal team, applauded the program saying, “C|M|LAW students will benefit significantly from this forward-thinking collaboration. The program provides opportunities for students to work on a team providing sophisticated legal services to ‘real-world’ clients, while training the next generation of lawyers to provide pragmatic and business-oriented services.”</p></div></div></div>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:40:26 +0000600093320144 at http://www.csuohio.eduTalk Discusses Past and Present of Civil Racismhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/talk-discusses-past-and-present-civil-racism
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img alt="Lynn Itagaki" height="490" width="350" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/LynnItagakiArticle.png" />Scholar Lynn Itagaki is a leading figure in the development of the concept of civil racism, which refers to efforts to preserve civility and “community togetherness” at the expense of racial equality. She has utilized a host of historical incidents including the 1992 Rodney King riots and the Black Lives Matter movement to illustrate how efforts to promote equality have been dulled by the effects of civil racism and the strong reactions to this that have often boiled over in society.</p>
<p>Itagaki will present “Civil Racism from the 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion to the Age of Trump” as part of the Ralph Pruitt Lecture, Arts, and Media Series hosted by Cleveland State University’s Black Studies Department. The event will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday, February 20 in the Main Classroom (MC) Building, room 146 on the CSU campus. The lecture will be preceded by the screening of <em>LA 92</em> a National Geographic documentary on Rodney King and the LA Riots from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in MC 135. A reception and book signing with Itagaki will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. in MC 137. All events are free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Lynn Itagaki is associate professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author of <em>Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout</em>.</p>
<p>For more information about the Black Studies Program and the Pruitt Lecture Series, visit <a href="/class/black-studies/black-studies">https://www.csuohio.edu/class/black-studies/black-studies</a>.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Competition provides pathways for entrepreneurs</em></h6>
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<p>Entrepreneurs, developers, designers, marketers, inventors and startup enthusiasts will have the opportunity to share ideas, form teams, build prototypes and launch a business, all within the span of a single weekend, at Cleveland State University’s fifth annual Startup Vikes competition.</p>
<p><strong>The event runs Friday, February 23rd through Sunday, February 25th in CSU’s Student Center Ballroom, 2121 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland.</strong></p>
<p>Using Lean Startup methodologies, Startup Vikes begins with pitches, voting for the top ideas and team formation. A series of workshops then guides participants through building a business including business modeling, customer development, branding, revenue/financial models, legal pointers and pitching to investors. To date, 18 companies have been formed as a direct result of the event.</p>
<p>A cash infusion and prize packages are awarded to the top three businesses formed from the weekend.</p>
<p>“Startup Vikes provides a pathway for entrepreneurship,” says Colette Hart, senior director of the Centers for Outreach and Engagement in CSU’s Monte Ahuja College of Business. “It demonstrates CSU’s commitment to providing innovative programming that engages beyond the classroom and impacts the greater community.”</p>
<p>Tickets are $65 for CSU students and $150 for community members. The cost includes all workshops, meals from Friday afternoon through Sunday night, snacks, beverages, resources, access to experts, networking with leaders in the Cleveland startup community and more. Register at <a href="http://www.startupvikes.com">www.startupvikes.com</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>First-year students</strong> now have the opportunity to sign up to enjoy a free lunch with a faculty member. All you need to do to sign up is to <span><strong>click a date to get to the registration page</strong></span> . The lunch is being provided by the Provost's Office, and facilitated through the Center for Faculty Excellence. </p>
<p>Clicking on an instructor's name launches a faculty profile, for further information. </p>
<ul><li><strong>Monday, </strong><strong><a href="http://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=mufz1z2UzkquqyCQMIB1CIPVKvC7KtpDgt3QLjqn_SdUNDUwT0pRMUIyQlNVQVhBMlhBQjFOSlVJVi4u" target="_blank" title="Click here to register!">2/05/2018</a>, from 12:15 to 1:15 pm in SC 339</strong><br />
Candice Vander Weerdt is an Assistant College Lecturer in the Monte Ahuja College of Business. Candice Vander Weerdt is a Cleveland native and first generation college graduate with degrees in marketing, management, and information systems from Hawaii Pacific University, CSU, and Kent State University. <br />
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<li><strong>Friday, <a href="http://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=mufz1z2UzkquqyCQMIB1CIPVKvC7KtpDgt3QLjqn_SdUQU5ZNDNQVkg3NlJSVlNDS1RNSllGWTJDRC4u" target="_blank" title="Click here to register!">2/09/2018</a>, from 12:15 to 1:15 pm in JH 292</strong><br /><a href="http://expertise.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=R_KOSTANDY" target="_blank" title="Faculty Profile for Dr. Raouth Kostandy">Dr. Raouth Kostandy</a>, PhD, RN teaches Nursing Research for graduate, undergraduate, RN-BSN students, as well as other courses in these different programs. Her research is focused on the effect of Kangaroo Care, also known as Skin-to-Skin contact, on managing procedural pain and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome during the neonatal period for full term newborn infants. Her research has been presented internationally and nationally.<br />
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<li><strong>Tuesday, <a href="http://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=mufz1z2UzkquqyCQMIB1CIPVKvC7KtpDgt3QLjqn_SdUMjNHOFdYUExFODJXVkQzVTlMR1BCOExQWi4u" target="_blank" title="Click here to register!">2/13/2018,</a> 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in RT 1417</strong><br /><a href="http://expertise.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=G_TSAGARIS" target="_blank" title="Faculty Profile for Dr. George Tsagaris">Dr. George Tsagaris</a> is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work. He has taught more than 15 undergraduate and graduate courses at Cleveland State University, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses for other universities. He is a member of the CLASS Dean's Diversity Council, and conducts Social Work licensure workshops. He has over 34 years of practice experience in juvenile justice.<br />
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<li><strong>Tuesday, <a href="http://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=mufz1z2UzkquqyCQMIB1CIPVKvC7KtpDgt3QLjqn_SdUNkExWDlJU0ZZUU44NFVJM0hTRFNJNk1CVi4u" target="_blank" title="Click here to register!">2/20/2018</a>, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in SC 320</strong><br /><a href="/urban/faculty-and-staff/dr-robert-bob-gleeson" target="_blank" title="Faculty profile for Dr. Robert (Bob) Gleeson">Dr. Robert (Bob) Gleeson</a> serves as Associate Dean, Professor, and Albert A. Levin Chair of Urban Studies and Public Service at Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. He served most recently as adjunct professor of ethics, history, and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University and vice president of policy research and Thomas C. Sutton Chair in Policy Research at the Public Policy Institute of California.<br />
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<li><strong>Wednesday, <a href="http://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=mufz1z2UzkquqyCQMIB1CIPVKvC7KtpDgt3QLjqn_SdUM0NORVpWOUY0SDVIMDk5R0VUSlJQQ0tTQy4u" target="_blank" title="Click here to register!">2/28/2018</a>, 12:15 to 1:15 pm in SC 339</strong><br /><a href="http://facultyprofile.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=S_BAKKE" target="_blank" title="Faculty Profile of Dr. Sharen Bakke">Dr. Sharen Bakke</a> is an Associate College Lecturer AAU in the Department of Information Systems. She is most interested in why and how individuals use information technology. Her research interests include: The Nature and Impact of Privacy Concerns on the Use of Information Technology, and The Interaction of Personal Control and Perceived Invasion of Privacy and Its Impact on Intention to Use Information Technologies.<br />
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<li><strong>Thursday, <a href="http://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=mufz1z2UzkquqyCQMIB1CIPVKvC7KtpDgt3QLjqn_SdUQlBBUlRDUTAwMUYySzM1R1hPNEdKWjRSVi4u" target="_blank" title="Click here to register!">3/1/2018</a>, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm in RT 1316</strong><br /><a href="http://facultyprofile.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=M_GAGICH" target="_blank" title="Faculty Profile for Melanie E. Gagich, M.A.">Melanie E. Gagich</a>, M.A., an Assistant College Lecturer in the First-Year Writing Program within the English Department, said "I love to talk about teaching, writing, pedagogy, and new media, but I also love to talk about movies, books, and current events."<br />
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<li><strong>Monday, <a href="http://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=mufz1z2UzkquqyCQMIB1CIPVKvC7KtpDgt3QLjqn_SdUMEJZS0ZIUE1OQVFISldCNFI2NkFCMUxFSS4u" title="Click here to register!">3/19/2018</a>, 12:15 to 1:15 pm in SC 339</strong><br /><a href="http://facultyprofile.csuohio.edu/csufacultyprofile/detail.cfm?FacultyID=M_BLEEKE" target="_blank" title="Faculty Profile for Dr. Marian Bleeke">Dr. Marian Bleeke</a> is a specialist in the art of the Middle Ages. She teaches Introduction to Early Western Art along with courses in Medieval and Islamic art, Women in Art, and Contemporary Critical Theory. Her research has focused on Romanesque and Gothic sculpture and on medieval images of women and women as viewers of medieval art. Her new work engages with the materials and methods used in medieval art-making practices.<br />
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<li><strong>Friday, <a href="http://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=mufz1z2UzkquqyCQMIB1CIPVKvC7KtpDgt3QLjqn_SdUQTRMWTdLOFUxWVFPRlJYSU0zR1hCSkpXSi4u" target="_blank" title="Click here to register!">3/23/2018</a>, </strong><strong>12:15 to 1:15 pm in MU 232</strong><br />
"I understand the high school to college transition, as I have taught on both levels," said <a href="/class/film/faculty-and-staff-4" target="_blank" title="Faculty profiles for School of Film &amp; Media Arts at Cleveland State University">Eric Siler</a>, an Instructor within the School of Film &amp; Media Arts. "We can talk TV and movies, since I teach that. "</li>
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<p> </p></div></div></div>Fri, 02 Feb 2018 13:56:56 +0000600104720113 at http://www.csuohio.eduFaculty Spotlight: Sandra Hurtado Rúahttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/faculty-spotlight-sandra-hurtado-r%C3%BAa
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Dr. <a href="https://csuohio.us/HurtadoRua">Sandra Hurtado Rúa</a>, assistant professor in the <a href="/sciences/mathematics">Department of Mathematics</a>, joined CSU in 2015. She is interested in the development and application of Bayesian statistical methods to clinical, biological and social studies. Bayesian methods combine prior knowledge or information along with new data to model a particular system or answer questions about a problem of interest.</p>
<p>Dr. Hurtado Rúa’s collaborative research includes statistical analysis of MRI data in the context of multiple sclerosis research, clinical meta-analysis studies, and modeling of survival and cancer cure rates. Her work has been included in numerous clinical studies and could ultimately have direct benefits for patients and improve the treatment of various diseases.</p>
<p>Prior to joining CSU, Dr. Hurtado Rúa served as a postdoctoral associate in the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She earned her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Connecticut in 2011.</p>
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<p>Graduates who are impacting their communities, the world and Cleveland State University in unique and creative ways were honored at the second-annual Alumni Recognition Awards. The event also saluted CSU's third class of Fascinating Alumni.</p>
<p>"Our alumni - some 126,000 strong - are the foundation of this University and our greatest ambassadors. They bring distinction to CSU and we are proud to honor them," said Brian Breittholz, assistant vice president for alumni affairs and executive director of the CSU Alumni Association.</p>
<p><strong>Congratulations to 2018 Recognition Award recipients:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Donnetta Monk</strong> and <strong>Mac Lewis</strong> for Student Leadership. Both are juniors in CSU's Honors College and leaders in the 1964 Society -- Donnetta as president and Mac as pride and traditions manager.</p>
<p><strong>Young Alumni Council</strong> for Outstanding Chapter Program -- 5 Under 35 is a panel discussion series that features five panelists under age 35 talking about life after graduation.</p>
<p><strong>Southwest Alumni Team</strong> for Outstanding Chapter. Based in Arizona, this group is one of CSU's most active alumni chapters outside the Cleveland area, even hosting one of the first Homecoming events outside of campus.</p>
<p><strong>Nolan Andersky</strong>, BBA '12, for Outstanding Young Alumni. The digital content manager at Nestle is a member of CSU's Young Alumni Council and serves as treasurer and director of programming.</p>
<p><strong>Chris Alvarado</strong>, MUPDD '99 and <strong>Calvin Williams</strong>, BA '15, for Outstanding Public Service. Alvarado is executive director of Slavic Village Development. Williams is Cleveland's Police Chief.</p>
<p><strong>Allison Flowers</strong>, BS '01, <strong>Kurt Steigerwald</strong>, BA '86 and MBA '88, and <strong>Karen Steigerwald</strong>, BSN '88, for <strong>David Balint</strong> Outstanding Volunteer Service. Flowers is the longest-serving current member of the Alumni Board of Directors and former president of CSU's Black Alumni Organization. The Steigerwalds organized a large group of 1980s era alumni to march in CSU's 50th anniversary homecoming parade. He is a member of the Alumni Board of Directors. She is helping CSU form a nursing alumni chapter.</p>
<p><strong>Laura Rodriguez-Carbone</strong>, BA '11, and <strong>Robert Brandt</strong>, BBA '89, and <strong>Carla Brandt</strong> for the Resilience Award. Rodriguez-Carbone has overcome adversity and today is a community outreach coordinator for Lifebanc. Brandt and his wife created Robby's Voice. Named for their son who struggled with drug addiction and passed away in 2011, the foundation focuses on bringing drug awareness and education to families, schools and communities in need.</p>
<p><strong>Carrie Neville</strong> and <strong>Brandon Longmeier</strong> for the Presidential Citation for Exemplary Service to the Alumni Association. Both work in CSU's Athletics department and work with the Alumni Office to create joint athletic/alumni events.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Andrew Gross</strong> for Honorary Lifetime Alumni Association Membership. For 50 years, the professor of marketing and international business has been a champion of educational excellence who has impacted thousands of students. He will retire in June.</p>
<p><strong>Congratulations to the third class of Fascinating Alumni:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Gary Sorace</strong>, BEd '78 and MEd '93. Now retired, he spent 40 years as an educator, including 35 years teaching at-risk students in the Twinsburg schools. He is an inductee in the Ohio chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Roger Stone</strong>, BS '65. He holds a number of patents and spent 26 years with Procter &amp; Gamble as a senior scientist in the cell and molecular biology department, where he was a top investigator of toxic shock syndrome.</p>
<p><strong>Crystal Franklin</strong>, MEd '00. She has visited six continents, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Guyana, and currently teaches science in China. In 2016, she was recognized for her work at a White House-sponsored United State of Women Summit.</p>
<p><strong>Dr. Mehdi Shishehbor</strong>, MPA '04. An internationally known cardiologist, he recently joined University Hospitals Harrington Heart &amp; Vascular Institute as co-chair of the Clinical Executive Committee, director of the Cardiovascular Interventional Center, and co-director of the Vascular Center.</p>
<p><strong>Lidia Polatajko Trempe</strong>, BA '02. The "babushka lady" is making ethnic foods and traditions cool again as co-owner (with her mother) of Rudy's Strudel and Bakery in Parma - known far and wide for its Fat Tuesday paczki parties and events like post-Easter Dyngus Day.</p>
<p><strong>Susan Hlavacek</strong>, BEd '80. The first female inducted into CSU's Athletic Hall of Fame taught and coached at Laurel School and Notre Dame College, and today is director of events and programs for the National Senior Games Association.</p>
<p><strong>Andrea Muto</strong>, JD '94. Formerly an international development consultant in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Liberia and Mali, she is now a research services librarian at Georgetown University Law Center Library.</p>
<p><strong>Sandra Banks Robinson</strong>, BA '76. Retired after 36 years as a reporter, editor and columnist at the Los Angeles Times, she is now a Senior Fellow with the Annenberg Center for Communication Leadership and Policy at the University of Southern California.</p>
<p><strong>Radhika Reddy</strong>, MACC '01. A former member of the CSU Foundation board of directors, she is the co-founder of Ariel Ventures LLC which includes four other 100 percent women-owned and minority firms.</p>
<p><strong>Alan Wragg</strong>, BBA '66. He spent 16 years in senior sales management roles at Sports Illustrated and Life magazines, was the publisher of the largest cable industry magazine, The Cable Guide, and founded the first electronic guide, Total TV Online. Now retired, he is CEO of the Time Life Alumni Society.</p>
<p><strong>Gary Tucholski</strong>, BSME '63. A career engineer with Eveready Battery Co., he played a key role in the development of numerous battery technologies and product lines and was named a charter member of the Eveready Battery Hall of Fame.<br />
He passed away in June 2017.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:12:31 +0000600104720110 at http://www.csuohio.eduForum Discusses Rights of Ex-Prisonershttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/forum-discusses-rights-ex-prisoners
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Levin College Hosts Noted Scholar Michael Leo Owens</em></h6>
<p>Michael Leo Owens, a noted civil rights scholar and associate professor of political science at Emory University, will headline the next Levin College Forum at Cleveland State University. Owens will discuss the current legal framework surrounding the civil rights of ex-prisoners and the need to balance public safety concerns with the goal of protecting the rights for all individuals.</p>
<p><strong>The forum will be held from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thursday February 8 in the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs on campus. The event is free and open to the public.</strong></p>
<p>Owens’ research focuses on urban politics, political penology and governance and public policy processes. He is the author of <em>God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America</em> which was published in 2007 by the University of Chicago Press. His current book project is <em>Prisoners of Democracy</em>, a study of the politics, policies, and attitudes that diminish the citizenship of felons in the United States. He is the former chair of the governing board of the Urban Affairs Association and serves on the boards of the Prison Policy Initiative and the Georgia Justice Project. Prior to joining Emory, he served as a research associate with the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.</p>
<p>Since its inception in 1998, the <a href="/urban/forum/forum">Levin College Forum</a> has tackled a broad range of civic issues including the lakefront plan, economic growth and development, affordable housing, immigration, education, the convention center, poverty, race and sustainable development. The work of the forum is based on the premise that an informed and engaged citizenry is a valuable asset for the region's future growth and prosperity.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6>Eve Ensler’s drama empowers young women</h6>
<p>Cleveland State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance, a Resident Company of Playhouse Square, will continue its Theatre season with the hard-hitting all-female play, *EMOTIONAL CREATURE – THE SECRET LIFE OF GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD (EC). Writer Eve Ensler (of “The Vagina Monologues”) celebrates the authentic voice inside every girl and lets EC be a vehicle to empower young women and inspire activism.</p>
<p><strong>Running February 22 – March 4, 2018</strong>, EC is the “bold voice of a new generation” and is directed by CSU Associate Professor Holly Holsinger. The show has been called “empowering and entertaining” by the <em>New York Observer</em>.</p>
<p>Performances run at the Helen Rosenfeld Lewis Bialosky Lab Theatre at the Allen Theatre Complex (Playhouse Square) Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5.00-$10.00 and are available by calling 216.241.6000, visiting <a href="http://www.playhousesquare.org">www.playhousesquare.org</a>, or at the State Theatre Ticket Office, located at 1519 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115. Tickets are also available 60-minutes prior to performances at the Allen Theatre Complex.</p>
<p><strong>Two $25.00 Dinner and a Show Nights will be offered in partnership with Elements Bistro on Euclid and are available on Fridays, February 23 and March 2, 2018 by pre-reservation only by using ticket code DIN. </strong></p>
<p>*<em>Parental guidance recommended. Ages 12 and up due to some sexual and violent content.</em></p>
<p><strong>THE STORY</strong></p>
<p>Through scenes, monologues, poetry, questions, and facts, the Tony Award-winning playwright brings to the stage an understanding of the universality of girls around the world: their resiliency, their wildness, their pain, their fears, their secrets, and their triumphs. Songs and games interweave everything from finding the perfect Facebook selfie to enjoying time with friends while having a Beyoncé dance party. These true stories told through the actors explore the questions of “who am I,” “where do I belong” and “why did this happen to me?”</p>
<p>The 90-minute play also delves into harder topics. Among the girls Ensler creates are an American who struggles with peer pressure in a suburban high school; an anorexic blogging as she eats less and less; a Masai girl from Kenya unwilling to endure female genital mutilation; a Congolese forced into sex slavery; a Chinese factory worker making Barbies; an Iranian student who is tricked into a nose job; a pregnant girl trying to decide if she should keep her baby, and a young South African teen defiantly calling for an end to rape. The play is engaging, moving from laughter to tears, and giving audience’s one of the most powerful theatrical experiences of a lifetime.</p>
<p>EC has played all over the world. Girls have shared that the show and the subjects resonated for them on a personal level, from rape to their sexuality, to racism and economic injustice. Boys have said that for them it was the first time they understood what their female peers were experiencing.</p>
<p><strong>THE CAST</strong></p>
<p>The all-female CSU cast includes Lilyvette Acevedo, Sophia Marcella Costanzo, Brianna Hohenfeld, Brooke Myers, Jada Mykel, Brittany Ozanich, Cara Rovella, Elizabeth Stewart, Kynnedy Stewart, Madelyn Voltz, and Angela Warholic.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Will feature classic dishes, discounts and giveaways </em></h6>
<p>Cleveland State University’s Elements Bistro on Euclid is proud to announce a week-long celebration of its tenth year of providing excellent service and high-quality dining experiences for their guests.</p>
<p>In 2008, Cleveland State University began developing a vision for an elevated level of dining on campus where students, faculty, staff and guests could gather for a unique, locally focused dining experience. In partnership with Chartwells Higher Education, the University launched Elements Bistro. Throughout the decade, Elements has earned accolades for their innovative food creations, has won “best of” awards in the region and garnered praise for their student-based wait staff.</p>
<p><strong>From February 5th to February 9th, join Elements staff and friends to celebrate their tenth anniversary on campus. The week will feature classic favorites from the past, new dishes from the current menu, giveaways and discounts. In culmination, on February 9th, each guest will be offered a free slice of birthday cake! Later that evening a special happy hour reception will be held from 5pm-8pm. This event is open to the public.</strong></p>
<p>“It has been my great privilege and joy to have spent the last ten years working at Elements Bistro on Euclid,” says Steve Adams, Elements’ current general manager. “This restaurant owes its success to the many student employees, some whom have started working here as freshman and then finished their employment as CSU graduates. We also owe a great thanks to our culinary staff who constantly strives to produce dishes that are innovative and locally sourced. Finally, we owe our biggest thank you to our guests for giving us the opportunity to part of their daily lives.”</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span>We need your voice! Join us at the </span><span>Community Unity Roundtables</span><span> to talk about how we, as a CSU community, can stand together against hate, and work together to combat bigotry and build a more inclusive environment on campus. Please register for one of the following dates:</span></p>
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<p>Thursday, February 1, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM</p>
<p>Tuesday, February 6, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM</p>
<p>Monday, February 12, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM</p>
<p><b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-unity-roundtables-tickets-41525616236">REGISTER HERE FOR COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLES</a></b></p>
<p>Dr. Maurice Stinnett, Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement, together with leaders from the Student Affairs Division and the Office of General Counsel, will discuss university policies and procedures designed to prevent hate speech. These rules have been updated following the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1nJSi-spmw" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">panel discussion we had</a> about the despicable flyers we've witnessed on campus.</p>
<p>Most importantly, we need to hear from you. We need your energy and your ideas about what we need to do collectively to build a welcoming and inclusive campus atmosphere for all CSU members. Join the conversation at the <span>Community Unity Roundtables</span><span>.</span></p>
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</div></div></div></div>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:09:32 +0000600104720086 at http://www.csuohio.eduWharton School CFO Named 7th CSU Presidenthttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/wharton-school-cfo-named-7th-csu-president
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Harlan M. Sands brings 20 years of academic experience</em></h6>
<p><img alt="Harlan M. Sands" height="390" width="1000" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="2" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/Announcement_website_inline_0.png" />Harlan M. Sands, currently vice dean and CFO of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a longtime academic administrator and public servant, has been selected as the seventh president of Cleveland State University. Sands was introduced at a press conference held today on campus. His appointment by the Board of Trustees follows a national search led by a diverse search committee which included students, faculty, staff and members of the Cleveland community. </p>
<p>Sands will replace Ronald M. Berkman, who is retiring after nine years as president of CSU. Sands will begin his tenure July 1.</p>
<p>“CSU’s continued upward trajectory demands a leader with significant administrative skills, a deep respect for and experience with academia and a proven track record of accomplishment within higher education,” says Bernie Moreno, chair of the CSU Board of Trustees and chair of the Search Committee. “Harlan Sands meets all of those requirements and will be the visionary leader CSU needs to further its position as a leading urban research university. I am honored to introduce him as the next president of Cleveland State.”</p>
<p>“Through its commitments to higher education access for all, student success, engaged learning and connectivity with the community, Cleveland State is uniquely positioned to transform lives in a way that very few institutions can match,” notes Sands. “I am humbled to be chosen to lead this prestigious university and am excited to work with students, faculty, staff and community leaders to continue and enhance CSU’s important educational mission.”</p>
<p>With nearly two decades of experience as an administrator, research center director and faculty member at urban research universities, Sands is a highly regarded and widely respected higher education leader. He comes to CSU with a proven track record of advancing academic excellence, elevating faculty endeavors, championing research, and aligning strategies and operations to meet the emerging needs of higher education in the 21st century.</p>
<p>At Wharton, Sands was responsible for day-to-day operations related to financial affairs, business affairs, human resources, information technology and internal audit/institutional compliance, while also serving as a senior adviser to the dean on strategy and operations. The Wharton School was recently selected as the number one business school in the nation in <em>U.S. News and World Report</em>’s 2018 Best Graduate Schools Guide.</p>
<p>“President-elect Sands’ leading role at one of the most prestigious and innovative higher educational institutions in the world will be a major asset as Cleveland State continues to expand its academic and research quality, enhance value for students and grow its national reputation,” Moreno adds.</p>
<p>Sands previously served as senior vice president of finance and administration and chief operating officer at the University of Louisville, where he reduced operating costs, stabilized financial management practices and implemented several large-scale, revenue-generating opportunities in enrollment growth, student success and business support. Prior to that, he served as vice provost at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where his responsibilities included budget and finance, enrollment management, and student success operations. He began his tenure in higher education at Florida International University as a faculty member in the Department of Criminal Justice. He later advanced to assistant then associate dean of the College of Health and Urban Affairs before serving as FIU’s associate vice president for research.</p>
<p>Before entering academia, Sands served 11 years in the United States Navy as well as 4 years as an assistant public defender in Miami. His many career accomplishments include distinguished service during Operation Desert Storm.</p>
<p>He received his bachelor of science in economics from The Wharton School in 1984. He also holds an MBA with a major in finance from George Washington University and a J.D. from George Mason University. Sands and his wife of 17 years, Lynn, have two sons, Samson and A.J.</p>
<p>For more information about President-elect Sands, <a href="/sites/default/files/Sands_Bio.pdf">read his bio</a> as well as these <a href="https://csuohio.us/2Ep1D4l">"Five Fascinating Facts."</a></p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img alt="Dr. Kalle Lyytinen" height="416" width="350" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="3" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/1af5aea65885c51cd5f8d48be2ba9b68682ea5c9.png" />Dr. Kalle Lyytinen will discuss four new elements that have proved valuable in constructing more accurate explanations of innovation management processes and outcomes at Cleveland State University's next Multidisciplinary Research Seminar Series event.</p>
<p>The Case Western Reserve University professor will deliver his presentation titled <em>Reinventing Innovation Management in a Digital World</em> at Parker Hannifin Hall, PH 104 at noon on Friday, Feb. 2.</p>
<p>The <a href="/research">CSU Office of Research</a> created the Multidisciplinary Research Seminar Series to promote an environment that enables, encourages, and rewards multidisciplinary and collaborative risk taking to solve the broad challenges in our increasingly complex world. The series features seminars by CSU faculty and well-known speakers from across Northeast Ohio. They cover academic subjects as well as multidisciplinary issues such as creativity, risk-taking and innovation.</p></div></div></div>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:08:41 +0000600104720073 at http://www.csuohio.eduCSU Creates Bernie Moreno Center for Sales Excellencehttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/csu-creates-bernie-moreno-center-for-sales-excellence
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>$1 million gift creates academic and research center focused on sales education</em></h6>
<p><img alt="Bernie Moreno" height="310" width="796" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/BernieM_slider.png" /></p>
<p>Cleveland State University will create the <a href="/business/sales/bernie-moreno-center-for-sales-excellence">Bernie Moreno Center for Sales Excellence</a>, which will serve as a hub for innovative research and education in sales management and training, the University announced today.</p>
<p>The new center will be housed in the Monte Ahuja College of Business and is made possible thanks to a $1 million gift from Bernie Moreno, president of the Bernie Moreno Companies and chair of the CSU Board of Trustees. It will seek to enhance CSU’s efforts to promote community engagement, workforce development and engaged learning, while producing innovative curricula and training in the science of persuasion, consumer behavior and market analysis.</p>
<p>“CSU has a long history of providing career ready graduates who can meet the needs of industry. I am honored to be able to further that tradition through the creation of a state-of-the art hub for sales education and training that will serve as a national and international model,” Moreno says.</p>
<p>“Bernie Moreno is a leading business innovator and a dedicated proponent of the power of education to enhance social mobility and societal good,” says Ronald M. Berkman, president of Cleveland State University. “I want to personally thank him for all he has done for CSU and particularly for this generous donation, which will create a lasting educational legacy for our community.”</p>
<p>The Bernie Moreno Center for Sales Excellence will feature an undergraduate certificate in professional sales, continuing education courses and a custom training program tailored to individual industry needs. It will also develop innovative coursework and programs in sales management and market analysis. In addition, the Center is actively seeking corporate collaborations to enhance curriculum development and training programs. Its growing list of corporate partners includes KeyBank, Oswald Companies, PNC and Swagelok Company.</p>
<p>“There has been a growing recognition in multiple industries regarding the need for more advanced educational programs in professional sales that provide the analytic skills, market knowledge and customer focus that are required for a successful career. The Bernie Moreno Center for Sales Excellence will meet this critical need,” adds Sanjay Putrevu, dean of the Monte Ahuja College of Business. “Our ultimate goal is to produce career ready graduates who can drive future economic growth locally and nationally. We thank Bernie Moreno for this transformative gift and are excited to create this Center in the college.”</p>
<p>Bernie Moreno purchased his first auto dealership in 2005 and has grown the business into an impressive collection of luxury dealerships in Cleveland, Miami and the Greater Boston area. He was named the Hispanic Dealer of the Year at the 2015 Detroit International Auto Show and won the 2011 Midwest Region Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Ernst &amp; Young. Moreno joined the CSU Board of Trustees in 2011 and has served as chair since 2016. He is also a member of the boards of the Cuyahoga Community College Foundation, the Cleveland Foundation, Greater Cleveland Partnership and Destination Cleveland.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Presented by CSU and convergence-continuum </em></h6>
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<p>Cleveland State University and convergence-continuum present four world-premiere plays by local graduate-student playwrights at the 2018 NEOMFA Playwrights Festival. The Festival features two full-length plays by MFA candidates Katie Wallace, and Rob M.K. Daniels, and two ten-minute plays by graduate students Jonathan Wlodarski and Adam Rounick. These plays are part of a three-year intensive program of study under playwright and CSU professor Mike Geither. The productions are co-produced by convergence-continuum and the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) in Creative Writing, a four-university consortium incorporating the faculty and resources of Cleveland State University, Kent State University, Youngstown State University, and the University of Akron. This will be the seventh year convergence-continuum has mounted the Festival.</p>
<p><strong>Feb 8, 9, 10, Thurs-Sat at 8 pm:</strong></p>
<p>SEXLESS IN SEATTLE, a ten-minute play by Jonathan Wlodarski, is a lonely, lovelorn romp in a Seattle apartment. Directed by Clyde Simon.</p>
<p>MURDER AT THE PALACE THEATER by Robert M.K. Daniels, a comic, vaudeville murder mystery, is a satiric look at what people will go through for their art, and the cost of being famous. There are two sides to every coin; good and bad, light and dark, art and fame. And sometimes the price of fame can be murder. Directed by Beau Reinker.</p>
<p><strong>Feb 15, 16, 17, Thurs-Sat at 8 pm:</strong></p>
<p>RENDEZVOUS POINT, by Adam Rounick, is a ten-minute play about three professional criminals carrying out an elaborate heist. The only hitch is that two of them don't know the plan. Through playful back-and-forth banter and tangential diatribes, the clueless crooks race against the clock to salvage the scheme. Directed by Scott Zolkowski.</p>
<p>CONTRADICTIONARY LIES, by Katie Wallace, follows failed rocker Jimbo and his estranged wife Kelly as they sort through the remnants of their failed marriage. As nostalgia kicks up old emotions, Jimbo is visited by his guardian angel in the form of his idol, Kurt Cobain. Part dark comedy, part docudrama, this play channels It's a Wonderful Life for the grunge generation (minus the holidays) with amps up to eleven. Directed by David Munnell.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Thomas and Marsha Hopkins support Pratt Center</em></h6>
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<p>A new gift from Thomas and Marsha G. Hopkins will advance Cleveland State University’s nationally recognized efforts to promote higher education attainment and career readiness for individuals who have aged out of the foster care system. The $500,000 donation will create the Mathilde Jane Gutow Endowed Fund which will enhance academic support services and personal and professional development activities offered by the Pratt Center, CSU’s comprehensive resource hub dedicated to the academic and personal success of former foster kids.</p>
<p>“Foster children are one of the least likely groups to graduate from college and one of the most at-risk cohorts in our society,” notes CSU President Ronald M. Berkman. “This generous donation will strengthen the Pratt Center’s efforts to create a holistic system of support that can ensure these students receive the financial, academic and social assistance necessary to help them succeed at CSU and beyond.”</p>
<p>The Fund will provide support for housing assistance, meal plan assistance, book stipends and family emergency stipends. It will also support the overall tutoring, peer mentorship and socio-cultural support offered through the Pratt Center, which was created in 2016 to centralize CSU’s academic, mentoring, and social support resources for former foster youth.</p>
<p>Tom Hopkins earned his master’s in psychology at CSU in 1982 and spent his professional career at Sherwin-Williams, retiring as the company’s senior vice president for human resources. He currently serves as an executive-in-residence with CSU’s Division of Career Services. The fund is named in honor of Marsha Hopkins’ mother, Mathilde Jane Gutow, a former foster child who served in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II, later earned bachelors and master’s degrees from Case Western Reserve University and worked for many years as a social worker and teacher.</p>
<p>“Jane overcame a tremendous number of societal, emotional, economic and life issues to complete her education at the highest levels, serve her country, raise a family and be an active member of her community,” says Tom Hopkins. “We are pleased to offer the foster students of Cleveland State University the opportunity to build meaningful and satisfying lives through the Mathilde Jane Gutow Endowment Fund.”</p>
<p>“We are happy to be able to do this on behalf of our family in memory of my mother who inspired all of us to reach our full potential and give back to our communities,” adds Marsha Hopkins.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:07:21 +0000600093320036 at http://www.csuohio.eduCSU’s Hilary Plum Wins 2018 New Writers Award http://www.csuohio.edu/news/csu%E2%80%99s-hilary-plum-wins-2018-new-writers-award
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6>Honored for non-fiction work <em>Watchfires</em></h6>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/2FQLvss" target="_blank"><img alt="Watchfires" height="408" width="350" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: right;" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/Watchfires-Front-Cover-WEB.jpg" /></a>Hilary Plum, associate director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, has received the 2018 New Writers Award for Creative Non-fiction, presented by the <a href="https://www.glca.org/">Great Lakes Colleges Association</a>. She was honored for her first nonfiction work <em>Watchfires</em>, published by Rescue Press. Now in its 49th year, the New Writers Awards confer recognition on promising writers who have published a first volume in one of three genres, fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Winning writers receive invitations to visit GLCA member colleges where they give readings and conduct talks on writing with students and faculty members.</p>
<p>“Urgent and probing, generous and judicious, Hilary Plume’s <em>Watchfires</em> asks the big questions: what does it mean to be at war, to be sick, to be in love, to be family?” noted GLCA in the award announcement. “This book possesses a beautiful lyricism, a deeply ruminative poeticism, and a steadily building sense of conviction that war and love, disease and health are perhaps more close than might make us comfortable.”</p>
<p>“Hilary is a tremendously talented writer and educator and this award further highlights her growing national reputation,” adds Caryl Pagel, director of the CSU Poetry Center. “We are very lucky to have her on the staff at the Poetry Center where she serves as a major asset to our students and the Cleveland literary community.”</p>
<p>Plum has previously written two novels <em>They Dragged Them Through the Streets </em>and <em>Strawberry Fields</em>, the latter of which won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose. Prior to joining CSU in 2017 she served as managing editor of the <em>Journal of the History of Ideas</em>, book-review editor for <em>Kenyon Review</em> and co-director of Clockroot Books.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:10:31 +0000600093320033 at http://www.csuohio.eduIntroducing the January Issue of CSU Researchhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/introducing-january-issue-csu-research-0
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Introducing the January Issue of CSU Research</strong></p>
<p>Cleveland State University’s Office of Research has released the latest edition of its online newsletter, <em>CSU Research</em>. It includes a feature on the new Internet of Things (IoT) Collaborative initiated by CSU and Case Western Reserve University to promote regional development of the Industrial IOT. The newsletter also highlights the scholarship of counseling education professor Kelly Yu-Hsin, international business expert Ping Deng and historian Jose Solá.</p>
<p>Read the <a href="/research/news/email/newsletter/volume5-issue1.html">newsletter</a>. Learn more about the <a href="/research/research">Office of Research</a> at CSU.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:25:28 +0000600093320024 at http://www.csuohio.eduOnline MSN Degree Ranked in Top 50 Nationallyhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/online-msn-degree-ranked-in-top-50-nationally
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>US News also ranks program 3rd in Ohio</em></h6>
<p><img alt="MSN" height="310" width="796" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/MSNheader.png" /></p>
<p><a href="/nursing/graduate-programs">The Online Master of Science in Nursing program</a> in Cleveland State University’s School of Nursing has been ranked 45th nationally and number 3 in the state of Ohio, in U.S. News &amp; World Report’s 2018 list of the Best Online Degree Programs. This marks the first time that the Master’s program has been ranked in the top 50 nationally.</p>
<p>“This ranking reflects the graduate faculty’s commitment to providing high quality academics and experiential learning that prepare students to enter the dynamic and constantly evolving health care work force,” notes Maureen Mitchell, director of the MSN program at CSU. “We are particularly proud of our attention to individualized study that meets the needs of our students and their employers in an urban health care environment.”</p>
<p>Designed for working professionals and recent college graduates seeking to expand their earning potential and employment opportunities, CSU’s Online MSN degree assists students in developing a course of study that meets their particular educational needs while also providing the flexibility needed to achieve academic, professional and personal success. In addition, the School of Nursing has numerous partnerships with local health care institutions to assist working nurses in enhancing their education, while also providing engaged learning opportunities for current graduate students.</p>
<p>U.S News &amp; World Report ranked programs based on admissions selectivity, reputation for excellence among peer institutions and academic and career support services offered to students. The full list of the Best Online Degree Programs can be viewed at <a href="http://www.usnews.com/online" target="_blank">www.usnews.com/online</a>.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:00:09 +0000600104719919 at http://www.csuohio.eduImproving Cancer Treatmenthttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/improving-cancer-treatment
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Researchers enhance therapies to treat brain tumors</em></h6>
<p><img alt="Cancer Cells" height="310" width="796" class="media-element file-default" data-delta="1" title="" typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/CancerHeader.png" /></p>
<p>Cancer of the brain is an incredibly deadly disease that affects thousands of children and adults annually. Unfortunately, brain surgery and radiation are very risky and have significant negative side effects. In addition, the only FDA-approved drug designed for brain tumors, temozolomide, has an effective “life span” of less than a year due to the development of drug resistance in humans.</p>
<p>Now, a team of researchers at Cleveland State University, has developed a new therapeutic agent that greatly improves the effectiveness of temozolomide. The agent, a DNA polymerase inhibitor, greatly reduces resistance and improves the overall effectiveness of the drug in destroying tumors, leading to significantly higher survival rates. The findings were recently published in the peer-reviewed journal <em><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29259011">Cancer Research</a></em>.</p>
<p>“Two-thirds of brain cancer patients die within five years of diagnosis, and the risks and side effects from current treatments can be nearly as bad as the disease itself,” notes Dr. Anthony Berdis, associate professor of chemistry and biology at CSU and a member of the University’s Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease. “The combination of our drug with temozolomide has the potential to greatly improve both life expectancy and the quality of life for patients.”</p>
<p>Berdis’ team is currently conducting additional toxicity studies on the therapeutic agent, which will be required for future FDA approval. They will also soon begin tests on additional cancerous tumors to assess the effectiveness of the agent in treating breast cancer, leukemia and other diseases. The research has been funded by the Department of Defense, the Ohio Third Frontier Commission, CSU's Office of Research, GRHD and Dr. John C. Vitullo's pilot and bridge funding program. </p>
<p>“This research could have tremendous applications for addressing numerous types of cancers and ultimately helping patients live longer, better lives,” Berdis adds.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:49:19 +0000600104719917 at http://www.csuohio.eduFrederick Hess Discusses Future of Public Educationhttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/frederick-hess-discusses-future-public-education
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Talk cosponsored by Union Club and GCSSA</em></h6>
<p>Frederick Hess is a leading education reform scholar who has been at the forefront of national efforts to improve the quality, accountability and outcomes of public education. He will discuss the current challenges and opportunities facing schools across the U.S. and how government, business and the community can come together to enhance educational opportunity for all at a public lecture at the Union Club of Cleveland on January 19. The event is cosponsored by Cleveland State University’s Center for Educational Leadership and the Greater Cleveland School Superintendents’ Association.</p>
<p>“Improving the quality of public education is a key challenge of our time,” notes Deborah Morin, director of the Center for Educational Leadership at CSU. “It is our hope that this public dialogue will further the ongoing efforts of leaders across Northeast Ohio to initiate productive reforms that can enhance educational attainment and promote future community development and economic growth.”</p>
<p><strong>The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Union Club, 1211 Euclid Avenue, and the cost is $20 per person. To register, visit <a href="http://gcssaohio.org/?tribe_events=gcssa-january-in-service-session-rick-hess-straight-up">http://gcssaohio.org/?tribe_events=gcssa-january-in-service-session-rick-hess-straight-up</a></strong></p>
<p>Frederick Hess is a resident scholar and the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the author of the <em>Education Week</em> blog “Rick Hess Straight Up” and the executive editor of <em>Education Next</em>. His books include <em>Letters to a Young Education Reformer</em>, <em>The Cage-Busting Teacher</em> and <em>Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age</em>.</p>
<p>The Center for Educational Leadership was established in 2008 by CSU’s College of Education &amp; Human Services to improve leadership capacity across Northeast Ohio and beyond. The Center manages numerous degree, school licensure and professional development programs that move talented individuals along their leadership pathways, from teacher to principal to superintendent. Learn more at <a href="/cehs/casal/cel">https://www.csuohio.edu/cehs/casal/cel</a>.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>Bibo Li receives Jennie S. Hwang Award for Faculty Excellence</em></h6>
<p>Cleveland State University’s annual Distinguished Faculty and Staff Awards honor the contributions of its dedicated employees and illustrate the commitment to students, enthusiasm for education and tremendous skill exhibited by all of the members of CSU’s campus community. The awards are presented at fall commencement and include honors for outstanding faculty research, teaching and service; outstanding classified and professional staff and the Jennie S. Hwang Award for Faculty Excellence.</p>
<p>“CSU’s tremendously talented and committed faculty and staff go the extra mile every day to ensure a high quality learning environment for our students,” says Ronald M. Berkman, President of Cleveland State. “The Distinguished Faculty and Staff Awards give us an opportunity to honor all of their accomplishments and to say thank you for their amazing contributions to our community.”</p>
<p>The Jennie S. Hwang Award is the highest honor bestowed by the University for faculty members and recognizes individuals for bringing regional, national and international recognition to Cleveland State through exceptional achievements in teaching, research and service. The award is named in honor of Jennie Hwang, a member of the CSU Foundation board of directors and CEO of H Technologies Group. The 2017 winner is Dr. Bibo Li, professor of biological, geological and environmental sciences and a member of CSU’s Center for Gene Regulation in Health and Disease. Li is a leader in the global fight to find a cure for sleeping sickness which threatens millions in the developing world annually. In addition to the Hwang award, she received a Distinguished Faculty Award for Research.</p>
<p>Additional 2017 award winners include:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Distinguished Faculty Award for Research</strong>: Dr. Zhiqiang Gao, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science</li>
<li><strong>Distinguished Faculty Award for Service</strong>: Dr. Debbie Jackson, associate professor of teacher education</li>
<li><strong>Distinguished Faculty Award for Service</strong>: Dr. Jeff Karem, professor of English</li>
<li><strong>Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching</strong>: Dr. Petru Fodor, associate professor of physics</li>
<li><strong>Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching: </strong>Dr. Wenbing Zhao, professor of electrical engineering and computer science</li>
<li><strong>Distinguished Service Award for Classified Staff:</strong> Karen Locker, administrative secretary, Office of the Provost</li>
<li><strong>Distinguished Service Award for Professional Staff: </strong>Mary Therese Kocevar, director of sponsored programs and research services</li>
</ul><p>“When students talk about what makes CSU special, they put our outstanding faculty and staff at the top of the list,” Berkman adds. “The dedication and the commitment of these individuals makes us who we are as an institution.”</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h6><em>University honored for 9<sup>th</sup> consecutive year</em></h6>
<p>The Veteran Student Success Program at Cleveland State University has earned national recognition for its commitment to helping military veterans succeed in college as well as in their future careers.</p>
<p>For the ninth consecutive year, CSU has been named a “<a href="https://militaryfriendly.com/schools/">Military Friendly School</a>” by Victory Media, publisher of the annual <em>Guide to Military Friendly Schools</em>. Schools that receive this designation are evaluated across 10 categories, including military support on campus and outcomes for graduation and employment.</p>
<p>“CSU is dedicated to providing academic and financial resources, mentorship and cultural support to ensure our veterans have every opportunity to earn their degree,” says Robert Shields, coordinator of Viking Vets and retired U.S. Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander. “We are honored to again receive this important designation and will continue to strive to improve services to our veterans.”</p>
<p>Close to 600 veterans are currently enrolled at CSU, which offers a full range of support services for veterans and their families. For more information, please visit the Veteran Student Success Program <a href="/vikingvets/vikingvets">website</a> or call 216.875.9996.</p>
<p>The Military Friendly® Schools list is created each year based on extensive research using public data sources for more than 8,800 schools nationwide, input from student veterans, and responses to the proprietary, data-driven Military Friendly Schools survey from participating institutions.</p>
<p>The survey questions, methodology, criteria and weighting were developed with the assistance of an independent research firm and an advisory council of educators and employers. Data calculations and tabulations were independently evaluated for completeness and accuracy by Ernst &amp; Young. The survey is administered for free and is open to all post-secondary schools that wish to participate. Criteria for consideration can be found at <a href="http://www.militaryfriendly.com">www.militaryfriendly.com</a>.</p>
<p class="rtecenter">###</p></div></div></div>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:14:47 +0000600093319869 at http://www.csuohio.eduStudent Research Highlights Future of Data Analyticshttp://www.csuohio.edu/news/student-research-highlights-future-data-analytics
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>What does a barber shop quartet or the National Basketball Association have to do with data analysis? According to CSU math students quite a lot. Research projects featuring these disparate topics were just two of multiple presentations given as part of the Mathematics Senior Student Showcase held earlier this month on campus.</p>
<p>The event, hosted by the CSU Department of Mathematics with assistance from the <a href="/sciences/dean/coshp-visiting-committee">College of Sciences and Health Professions Visiting Committee</a>, highlighted undergraduate and graduate thesis projects conducted in partnership with faculty advisors. Michelle Hart developed a statistical analysis technique for improving evaluation of NBA player efficiency and Richard Ryan utilized linear regression to develop a predictive model for a barbershop quartet singing contest. The presentations, which also included analyses of robbery statistics in Chicago and biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations, highlighted the increasing use of data analytics to improve evaluation, efficiency and productivity in multiple fields. Additionally, the skills learned through the research will assist students in finding internship and employment opportunities in multiple fields.</p>
<p>Further highlighting the real world importance of the work conducted, the showcase was attended by representatives of numerous area companies, including Sherwin-Williams, Lubrizol, J.M. Smucker, Progressive Insurance and American Greetings.</p>
<p>“Data analytics is becoming an essential resource for companies, governments and non-profit organizations,” notes Meredith Bond, dean of the College of Sciences and Health Professions at CSU. “CSU’s mathematics students are producing some truly amazing research that will help enhance data innovation as a tool for improving society, while also assisting them in ‘hitting the ground running’ in their career of choice.”</p>
<p>To learn more about the educational and research programming being conducted by the Department of Mathematics at CSU, visit <a href="/sciences/mathematics">www.csuohio.edu/sciences/mathematics</a>.</p>
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